因虐待继母而走上犯罪道路的青年辛大力，在关押期间乘隙逃跑。在一列货车上，碰见一个裁缝和一位年轻姑娘周小芸。裁缝收他为徒，心灵手巧的辛大力很快功成艺就。后来他逃到边陲傣寨，在繁荣的浣云镇当裁缝。有一次，辛大力在做衣服的过程中接待了一位丢了存折的顾客，没想到她就是小芸。小芸是某服装厂的厂长，厂里现在面临绝境。周小芸大胆地请辛大力为其厂设计一批新款衣服，结果使厂里起死回生。工厂迅速发展引起社会关注，辛大辛大力到处躲避采访，逃离人群，最后只好向周小芸坦白了罪恶的往事，并离开了那里。

1904年6月，伟大音乐家冼星海降生在澳门疍家的小船上，父亲在他未出生时就已被无情的大海吞噬。家境的贫寒，地位的低下，使幼年的星海（苏嘉航 饰）饱尝了世道的艰难。伹逐渐长大的星海（王成阳 饰）展现出音乐的天赋，他趁去葡国音乐学院送外卖的机会接触到了西洋音乐，妈妈（徐若瑄 饰）和外公尽量给少年星海创造学习的机会，妈妈的自尊自强时刻影响着星海。不久，外公惨死，渔霸借机欺侮妈妈，母子二人不得已赴南洋谋生。在新加坡，星海遇见了恩师肖友梅（苏有朋 饰），肖老师的出现对星海日后的成长起到了至关重要的作用......

1995 Chinese film

Won Golden Rooster Award for Best Film in 1990

After the defeat of the Japanese, the leadership of the Communist forces are invited by Chiang Kai-shek to "discuss the state of affairs" in Chongqing, with the goal of avoiding civil war.

In the spring and summer of 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched an offensive under the orders of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, they crossed the Yangtze River and Nanjing was liberated on April 23 which signaled the fall of the KMT regime, Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan; on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong standing on the rostrum of Tiananmen, solemnly declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China.