1980年代，各地大搞基础设施建设，由此，也产生了因触犯个人利益轰动一时的“钉子户”。工业局科长汪志龙（王庆祥 饰）因私欲得不到满足，干扰新建宾馆工地开工。电视台记者叶晋（哈斯巴根 饰）在台领导的支持下，准备编发一组新闻片播发此事，为此惹怒了汪志龙等一大批社会“关糸网”。叶的未婚妻（梁玉瑾 饰）也遭到恫吓。做为新时期的新闻战士，叶晋并未由此屈服，在宋台长（徐展 饰）支持下，他努力收集证据，并对再次聚众闹事的汪家行径进行了现场录像，以备日后编辑播出。汪不得已，再次搬出父亲老战友市人大唐秘书长（周正 饰）救驾，正直的群众愤怒不已......

2001年五月，镜州市委书记齐全盛的夫人高雅菊、女儿齐小艳和市委常委林一达、白可树一夜之间同时被省委审查。负责查处此事的是原镜州市长、现任省委副秘书长刘重天。刘重天和齐全盛当年搭班子时对于如何规划建设镜州产生过尖锐矛盾，造成了市委、市政府“一城两制”的局面。齐全盛跑到省委要绝对权力，以实现再造辉煌的钢铁意志。齐全盛十分自信：他从来没为自己夫人、女儿批过条子，做人堂堂正正。更重要的是，镜州在他押上身家性命的拼搏中崛起了，经济名列全省第一，他也得到了镜州老百姓真诚的支持和爱戴。

In 1949, a small Chinese fishing village populated almost entirely by women awaits the establishment of a government by the newly victorious communist regime. In addition to other worries, the villagers wonder how the government will react to their traditional customs, which decree that wives may only see their husbands three times a year, and the circumstances under which they are permitted to become pregant are very limited. In addition, those who are caught violating these rules are drowned. The almost exclusively female population of the village is explained by the fact that most of the male population died during an ocean storm. Winner of the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Film in 1989

1986 Chinese film by Wu Tianming