After a decade as a Beijing drifter, Fang Chunsu returns to Chengdu, grappling with urban alienation from her single mother, until a local youth helps her rediscover familial bonds through emerging cultural spaces and find renewed purpose amid the city's transformation.

Hong spent ten years in prison for killing her husband. Thanks to her contribution to the prison art workshop, she receives an unexpected opportunity to reduce her sentence. Her son, Lele, was raised by his grandmother and was never prepared to live with his mother. After their reunion, Lele always treats her coldly. Faced with a lonely grandmother who longs for Lele to return to her and a society that treats ex-convicts poorly, can Hong escape her invisible prison and regain happiness?

短片讲述了一个高中生在中秋节这天被告知自己的父亲有了外遇，为了保护卧病在床的母亲，他决定孤身前往小三家中解决此事，但却意外地发现了自己同父异母的妹妹。在与小三和“妹妹”短暂的相处中，他逐渐意识到了两个家庭的对等关系，最后无奈放弃驱逐这两人，继续暗流涌动的生活。

该剧根据“七一勋章”获得者张桂梅事迹改编。
张桂梅（宋佳 饰）是中国西部山区的一名普通中学女教师，多年间她不断目睹自己的女学生因家庭贫穷而辍学，在15、16岁的年纪或嫁人生子、或外出打工，这让张桂梅无比痛心和惋惜。她立志要办一所全免费的女子高中，让这些大山里的女孩获得受教育的机会、能够考上大学、走出大山，彻底改变 命运。2008年，全中国唯一一所全免费的女子高中成立，在没老师、没学生、没经费、没经验的重重困境下，张桂梅带领女高师生们完成了不可能的任务：让学习基础极度落后的女高学生们，全部考上了大学。这所女子高中让一批批女孩走出了大山，改变了命运。然而随着学校的发展，越来越多大山里贫困女生前来报考，新的问题和困难也随之而来……