A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an ambitious expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly modernizing Shanghai...

Years after breaking up, former lovers Su and Cheng are successful, each with new lovers, and find themselves living in the same neighborhood. Will the passions of the past come to blossom following a family tragedy.