Lao Yang Tou (Luo Jingmin) is an old artist living alone in Huaxian County, Shaanxi Province, whose family treasures the full range of activities of performing shadow puppetry. One day, the son who has been away from home for many years suddenly brings back a foreign widow dragging an oil bottle, grandson Brooks (Ding Jiaming). When the son and his foreign girlfriend went to Coco Siri in Tibet as volunteers to participate in the Tibetan antelope protection operation, they entrusted Old Yang Tou to take care of the little foreigner Brooks. In his opinion, the son married a foreign widow dragging an oil bottle, which would make the old Yang family lose face in front of the whole village. Moreover, foreigners are not good at anything, and the oil-soaked noodles that every household in Shaanxi covets are not as good as instant noodles in the eyes of foreigners.
Gradually, Lao Yang was not so repulsive to children, after all, in a large courtyard, he and the empty bird nest on the tree had been accompanied by an unknown number of spring and autumn, and some voices were moving around, which would always give some comfort to the heart. The foreign grandson first felt that the huts in the countryside smelled, and he ran directly back to the house to pull the ground. So the old Yang Tou, who couldn't help it, politely wrapped him in a mask and lit incense.
The grandson insisted on eating hamburgers, and if he didn't eat them, he would go to the room. Lao Yang naturally did not understand what hamburger meant, only that this thing could not be bought in the commissary, appeared on TV, and was often eaten by foreigners. Under the guidance of the commissary owner, Lao Yang still made a decent Chinese burger. Looking at Bruce, eating a steamed meat burger, Lao Yang sighed: Oh, I thought it was a high-tech product? Don't you just replace our Chinese meat steamed bread with your bread?
The grandson wanted to drink milk, but the commissary did not sell it, and the old Yang Tou, who could not buy milk, could only find Wang Station Manager, who raised cows at home.
The milk that was just about to come was spilled by the grandson, and he was not allowed to say it when he wet the bed, and he was going to run away from home when he was angry. In desperation, the old Yang Tou went to Wang Station Manager's house again to ask for milk, and by the way learned a Chinese dialect version of English - dog sun.
Soon after, Old Yang, who had always felt that his son was marrying a foreign widow, took Bruce to the county town to dye a black hair, and lied to others that he was a child in Xinjiang. As compensation, Booth ate a bowl of lamb steamed buns, which tasted much better than instant noodles.
Unconsciously, the feelings of the two stubborn grandchildren became stronger and stronger, and the grandfather and grandson began to play shadow puppets together, saying that they were good at tongue twisters, laughing on the bicycle and agreeing to eat Chinese New Year's Eve meal together.
One day, Old Yang and Booth were preparing to go out when they met their son and daughter-in-law, who came home, and the son told his father that he had broken up with his American wife. Brooks is leaving today, and Brooks has to go back to school in the United States. Booth went, cut off all fate, and walked away without looking back. Another old man and an empty house. Old Yang wandered in the middle of the courtyard, habitually holding up the stone to press the wellhead, in a trance, he suddenly remembered something, stood stunned for a long time, he still remembered those past fragments.
Half a year has passed, lao Yang's side has more refrigerators and color TVs bought by his son, but the home is still empty, and the TV is open but there is no sound. What my father lacked was not the big box that could talk, but the relatives who accompanied him. At this time, the phone rang, and Grandpa heard that it was Booth's voice, and he was busy holding up the wicker chair and lifting himself up. The sun poured on the old man's smile, and with it came the children and grandchildren who were back to good. A family of three, red plum newspaper New Year, Ruixue Mega Year, the old Yang family New Year.
Small-budget movies but full of warmth, family affection has no borders, the feelings of grandchildren, the love of grandfathers for grandchildren, whether it is The West or the East, are the same. The film integrates family affection, humor, cultural inheritance, etc., there is no excitement of big ups and downs, but it is simple and gentle and peaceful, and the rhythm integrates the slowness of the grandfather and the speed of the grandson, calm and lively, and is a film wrapped in warmth and happiness.