Taiwanese veteran Liu Yansheng (played by Ling Feng) went to Shanghai to look for his wife Qiao Yu'e (played by Lu Yan) who had been separated from him for decades and his son whom he had never met. Three years after Qiao Yu'e was separated from Liu Yansheng, she formed a family with Lu Shanmin (played by Xu Caigen) and gave birth to two daughters. Liu Yansheng learned that Qiao Yu'e and her husband were not in a good relationship, so he hoped to bring Qiao Yu'e to Taiwan to live with him, and promised to use his life savings to compensate Qiao Yu'e's husband and the children of this family. But it immediately caused a violent shock to the family. The fierce quarrel turned the reunion of relatives for decades into another injury to each other, until Lu Shanmin suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was in critical condition... Qiao Yu'e could not resist the fate of separation and had to send off her beloved Liu Yansheng again at the same Shanghai dock decades ago...