程晖（李美凤 饰）有着一段平淡而又乏味的婚姻，但她自己偏偏又是个浪漫爱好幻想的女人，于是只能将心中隐藏的激情挥洒在日记本中。某日，程晖家中来了窃贼，警探高政（万梓良 饰）奉命缉拿，就此意外的拾得了程晖的日记，发现了这个外表冷淡的女人内心里的火热。高政无法自持的想要接近程晖，不惜投其所好隐瞒了自己警察的身份，面对这个突如其来的高大男人，程晖心动了，两人之间的距离越来越近。在上一次的行动中，高政击毙了一名窃贼，窃贼的弟弟决定替哥哥寻仇，将攻击的目标放在了程晖的身上。为了救程晖，高政暴露了真实身份，程晖惊觉受骗，悲愤之中选择了离开。

在位于珠江的一处小村庄里，居住着大只牛（李清 饰）和长颈鸡（马孟平 饰）两个小人物。他们从年头到年尾辛勤劳作，可是一经土豪恶霸的盘剥，始终摆脱不了贫穷潦倒的命运。当地恶霸官仔贵（张瑛 饰）垂涎大只牛老婆（王辛 饰）的美色，于是设计陷害这两个穷小子。他们虽然暂时逃离，却仍不免被编入行伍送往内战前线打仗的命运。不甘受辱的牛嫂摆脱官仔贵的纠缠逃到广州，最终为坏人所骗流落风尘。命运多舛，不久后牛嫂竟然遇到了逃到广州为非作歹的官仔贵，几经周折她总算再度脱险。与此同时，大只牛和长颈鸡正走在回乡的路上，谁知巧遇牛嫂。在命运的捉弄下，小人物的身上早已千疮百孔……

Season 48 Episode 12.

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .