In a heavy industrial city in Northeast China in the early 1990s, former steel mill worker Chen Guilin (Wang Qianyuan) is laid off and puts together a band on his own, spending his days playing weddings, funerals, and shop openings just to scrape by. His wife, Xiaoju (Zhang Shenying), has run away from home and taken up with a wealthy fake-medicine merchant. Now Xiaoju returns looking glamorous, determined not only to divorce Guilin but also to fight for custody of their only daughter, Xiaoyuan. Bemoaning his failed fate, Guilin resolves to turn his daughter into a pianist. To keep her, he tries every means to raise money to buy a piano, even joining his girlfriend Shu Xian (Qin Hailu) and his old steel mill buddies in breaking into a school at night to steal one. After all his efforts fail, Guilin happens upon a Russian text about pianos and calls on his friends to embark on a journey of hand-building a piano in the long-dilapidated factory...
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