The Song dynasty stone statues, dating back 800 years, stand in the wheat fields of Maozhuang Village. Eight-year-old Qing lives in this village with her mother, Hongmei, while her father works away from home all year round. On the way to school, she meets a ghost-like white child who has come to find his missing mother. With the child's arrival, Qing starts to sense whispering under the stone statues as her mother's secret past begins to reveal itself.

女主莉莉是一名年轻单身母亲，八年前意外怀孕后生下了儿子小桃子。他们住在北京郊区的院子里，小桃子甚至很少去学校。某日，偶然重新建立联系的故人小美来家中探访，在一天一夜的了解和相处中，莉莉吐露了孩子的身世和自己的情感生活。在之后的一段日子里，由于小美的出现，未曾谋面的年轻父亲大桃子也突然出现在女主的交际圈里，关于孩子生父的秘密似乎就要人尽皆知了。