The movie is about a normal family living in the southern area of Beijing,China. The mother of the family is a elevator worker and has no passion for life, every day she works in the elevator taking the people up and down. After work she goes go the resident of the building to clean to make some extra income. The father of the family was “bought out from the national factory”,-the national factory is not responsible for him anymore- after that he started working in a restaurant as a chef’s assistant. What he like to do is date with his gayfriend. The son of the family is in middle school, who doesn’t like to communicate with other people much, including his mother, father and the rest of his family. The only thing he likes to do is to sit in the internet bar all day long. At first sight this family looks like a very normal family,but because problems often arise the family gets more and more frustrated.