In 1937, the Japanese war of aggression against China broke out, and the mountains and rivers broke out, and the lives were in trouble.Under the ravages of the Japanese invaders, the capital at that time could not escape the fate of falling.Wei Duanben (played by Shao Feng), a young civil servant in the Nanjing government, was forced to leave his first wife Wang Yulan and evacuate to the capital Chongqing with the fleeing crowd.On the way, Wei met Tian Peizhi (played by Chen Hao), a beautiful girl six years younger than him. They were both people who fell into the world. Two lonely people appreciate each other and eventually became husband and wife.Time flies, and six or seven years pass by in a flash.The Wei couple already have a pair of children.Wei Duanben works in a government agency. He is honest, sincere, pedantic and dull, and supports this small family with a thin salary. Although Tian Peizhi is a mother, she always maintains an innocent and lively personality. She is unbearable for poverty and boring life and is vain and flamboyant. She is obsessed with gambling. From the initial small fight to the later big big gains, the life at home becomes increasingly difficult, and the arguments between husband and wife have become commonplace.Tian Shen was trapped in a gambling game and couldn't extricate himself. In order to raise gambling funds, he did not hesitate to make friends with unscrupulous businessmen and lenders.With the emergence of Fan Baohua (played by Yu Hewei), Hong Wuye (played by Yuan Yuan) and Zhu Si Grandma (played by He Saifei), the Wei family has since fallen deeper and deeper in the dark quagmire... This film is adapted from the original work of the same name by Zhang Henshui.