两位情投意合的青年阿超(王学兵饰)和佳佳(李煜饰)由热恋到谈婚论嫁,为此阿超的父亲老吴(吴孟达饰)特地从香港赶到北京,与未来的亲家、儿媳相会。不料,佳佳的母亲雪莹(宋丹丹饰)与老吴在儿女婚后留京与去港的问题上发生了争执,双方不欢而散。为了儿子的婚事,老吴被迫二次登门进行情感磨合……这一切又都被深爱着雪莹的邻居老黄(赵本山饰)看在眼里,他误以为老吴频频出入雪莹家,是对雪莹有意、是想“横刀夺爱”,于是“醋劲儿”大发,先是与佳佳合计为老吴介绍对象,接着又乔装成雪莹的东北老乡,编排有关雪莹的谣言,几乎将老吴吓跑。而雪莹为留住女儿,也自做主张欲给佳佳找寻新男友……。皇帝后宫,妃子陈俊姬因怀了龙种得宠而受到贵妃萍薇的嫉妒,心狠手辣的萍薇指使兄弟杀害了陈俊姬,而她姐弟俩却遭到了死者鬼魂惨烈的报复……。three distant and diverse existences caught in a same tension: the search for their own identity and the sense of ''being'' in a present of continuous transformation. All of them was born after 1989 the end of all the revolutions.。