The story of this drama started in the fiery year of 1956 in New China. Wenli and Tongzhi were an ordinary couple. Their marriage began in the sunny 1950s, going through the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s to the new century after the founding of New China. They experienced the most intense and significant changes in the fifty years history of New China. This drama is not only a fifty-year marital life history of the protagonists, but also a republican history of New China. This drama in annalistic form tells year by year the bumpy fifty-year marital road of this couple.