The story follows a rich, comfortable household thrown into escalating turmoil after a shabby vendor of sweet potatoes suffers a stroke in their drawing room. His presence alone isn't much of a catalyst (although it does spark plenty of interest and attention from the victim's greedy and envious tenement neighbors), but serves instead to counterpoint the absurd behavior of everyone around him. A large cast of sympathetic and eccentric characters bustles constantly in and out of each (oddly lit) scene, but despite all the frenzied activity and sharp dialogue the film presents a rather quaint moral: too much money spoils true love.

Mark Normand returns for a third comedy hour to cover it all: drinking, anxiety, gays, naughty words, trans, race and the ladies.

清朝末年，天津城了出现一个恶霸地痞——玻璃花（陈宝国 饰），他无恶不作、欺行霸市。一日，卖豆腐的老实人傻二（王亚为 饰）和玻璃花较上了劲，争执中傻二甩开自己的辫子还击，玻璃花被抽得毫无还手之力，落荒而逃。不日玻璃花纠集了一伙武林高手来找傻二寻仇，憨二照样甩开自己又粗又长的还击，竟然打败了一众高手！从此“神鞭”傻二的名声传扬开来。八国联军入侵时，傻二加入了义和团，“神鞭”歼敌无数，立下了赫赫战功……

讲述了一个导演拍电影的故事。本片通过主角晨风电影找投资，讲述了中国电影行业5年来所谓的畸形的“电影盛世”，也即是晨风的电影之路。该片为蝉鸣知了第一部电影长片作品。