A miner's widow arranges her brother-in-law's marriage before he goes to work in mine field, but his fiancee breaks up with him to engage an urban official. So he helps his sister-in-law for farm work regularly and falls in love with her.
In 1948 the corrupt in-law of a newly appointed minister in the Nationalist government in Chongqing travels with the minister from Xinjiang with a collection of loot which attracts robbers.