tells the story of the encountering of two eras, the first is a story of the Cultural Revolution, it is a story of fanatic spirit, and era of repressed instinct and tragic fate, equivalent to Europes Middle Ages; the second story is in the present, it is a story of ethical subversion, and era of impetuous indulgence and universal, even more like todays Europe. A Westerner needs to live for 400 years to experience two such radically different eras, whilst a Chinese man only needs to live for 40 years to experience that. Four centuries of turbulent change concentrated into four decades, this is a precious experience. The connecting tie between these two eras are the two brothers, their life changes within the changes, their sorrows and joys outbreaking within the outbreaks, their fate are turning upside down just like the eras they are in, and eventually their sufferings must intersect.