Weakened by illness but strong in mind, Mei Changsu enters court politics to seek justice for a tragedy long forgotten.

19世纪中叶，古老的中华大地尚处于清政府统治时期。为了应对沙俄对我国的蚕食，朝廷撤销了在东北推行近两百年的封禁政策，鼓励关内百姓前往东北开垦荒地。山东人朱开山（李幼斌 饰）正是这群早期开拓者中的一员，他出关的时候清朝已然谢幕，这个早年参加义和团的鲁莽汉子，几经周折落脚关外，而他的老婆（萨日娜 饰）得知丈夫的音讯时则带着孩子们踏上寻夫之旅。正值兵荒马乱的年代，外有列强混战，内有军阀土匪，天灾人祸致令中国的老百姓颠沛流离，苦不堪言。
朱家虽然团聚，可是在这片广袤荒芜的黑土地上尚有无数艰险等在前面，而朱开山和妻子以及三个儿子，也将各自品尝着人生的苦辣酸甜……

A group of city dwellers who have to make choices about love and career. Based on Hong Kong novelist Yi Shu's novel of the same name.

When archaeologist Shirley Yang learns of her father's disappearance, she returns to China and enlists the help of tomb raiders to track him down.

Set in the Japanese occupation era, the rich yet naive young master Ming Tai is trained to become an agent, and is later sent to become an underground spy for the Communists. Together with his brother and double agent Ming Lou, they try and bring down Wang Wei's Kuomintang Secret Service Headquarters.