在一起了，她想以此来维系兄妹之间的感情。但，只有从舰队退役的大哥建国来了，其他人都借故未到。站在父母墓前，建菊难过得哭泣。她向父母承诺，明年一定把全家人都带来。建菊的儿子童沙波是一名it工程师，孝顺的沙波提出婚后跟母亲住一起，但遭到未婚妻和未来岳母的强烈反对，未婚妻与其分手。心碎的沙波爱上婚礼化妆师谭文静，她与建菊一样也是一位单身母亲。建菊身患乳腺癌，已到晚期。她决定瞒住亲人不准备治疗。即将离开人世的大姐奔走于兄弟姐妹之间，化解他们之间的种种矛盾。建菊去世那天，全家人聚齐了，沙波按母亲的遗愿将骨灰海葬。 （英语）parents of the tong family have died for twelve years, yet the story of the tong family is still going on. on the anniversary of her mother's death, tong jianju, the eldest daughter, makes an appointment with her relatives to mourn her mother at the cemetery, in order to maintain the bond between the siblings. they haven't gotten together for years. eventually, only the eldest son jianguo, who has retired from the fleet, comes, and everyone else fails to show up for various reasons. jianju bursts into tears in front of her parents' grave. she promises she will bring the whole family next year. tong shapo, jianju's son and an it engineer, proposes to live with his mother after marriage to better fulfill his filial duty, which causes strong opposition from his fiancée and future mother-in-law and his fiancée's breaking up with him. heartbroken shabo falls in love with wedding makeup artist tan wenjing, who, like jianju, is also a single mother. jianju is suffering from breast cancer at an advanced stage. she decides to hide it from her loved ones and not to be treated. she makes herself busy resolving the conflicts between her siblings. the whole family finally gathers on the day jianju dies. shapo later scatters his mother's ashes at sea as she had wished.