Set in the period of land reform movement, a poor peasant Zhang gets a fertile land. But he doesn't work seriously on it, then loses money and runs...

The film introduces the famous national model worker, textile worker Huang Baomei, who is played by the real Huang Baomei herself.

In 1947, the Chinese Red Army sets a trap for the Nationalist forces in Jiangsu province.

A special agent of frontier force in Canton tries to find a spy called aunt Mei.