In Gu Jia Gou Village, 150 km from Beijing, men outnumber women. Some buy wives from faraway Sichuan province. Other remain bachelors; they gossip and complain together - yet find ways to have a sex life. Lao Yang is still in love with the girl he was forbidden to marry as a young man; she is now the middle-aged wife of the village head, but they sneak out for secret trysts. Yet, Lao Yang wants more...

赵闪闪（包贝尔 饰）是一位单纯善良的少年，默默喜欢着美丽女孩李春霞（孙怡 饰），两人考入了同一所高中，随着时间的推移，青涩的感情渐渐生根发芽，两人之间的距离越来越近。然而，来自学校和家长的压力让赵闪闪和李春霞不得不暂时分开，他们许下承诺，共同努力考入同一所大学，再续前缘。
然而，赵闪闪落榜了，深受打击的他陷入了郁郁寡欢之中。经历了种种波折，赵闪闪总算进入了理想的大学，然而，随之展现的丰富多彩的大千世界让赵闪闪眼花缭乱，李春霞那美好的身影渐渐在他的脑海里模糊起来。当赵闪闪发现自己内心真正的感情之时，一切都已经来不及了。

In his second feature, director/co-writer Hao pays rousing tribute to 'Er-ren-tai', a form of saucy musical performance closely associated with Hao's home region in the north-west near the Mongolian border. This colourfully accessible slice of backwater ethnography follows hapless hero Tiedan (Feng Si) from joyous childhood through to a maturity notable for an eventfully unorthodox love-life. Taking their cue from the Er-ren-tai songs themselves, which express passionate feelings in bursts of hyper-stylised intensity, Hao and his Korean editor Baek Seung Hoon sock over short scenes packed with freewheeling incident and comedy.