The story began in the early 1980s. Young technicians Liu and John Yang, with great curiosity, secretly discovered a video of USA-Today in an oil production team deep in the northwest desert of China. This film gave them a great shock after years of seclusion, and made them deeply feel the gap between China and the world modernization. Zhong Shengxi, the old model worker and commander of the oil field, together with the public security and security departments, captured these young people who watched the "yellow videotape" that night, which became a typical serious incident of "capitalism trying to peacefully evolve me". Zhong Shengxi instructed Wan Tiejun, his adopted son and secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee, to handle the matter. Wan Tiejun is faced with a huge and sharp contradiction-the client john young is his fiancee, and he grew up with his childhood friends, while the "principal offender" Liu wants to compete with him in love to the end. Later, he got john young pregnant ... Wan Tiejun stood at the height of the times and protected Liu.

Soon, this oil team turned to offshore oil fields, and Wan Tiejun was sent to the United States to study ... Because he did not follow the scientific laws, his adoptive father Zhong Shengxi made a mistake in command, which led to the explosion of "Haiyi Well", which destroyed people and was dismissed and sentenced. Wan Tiejun was recalled to China. Faced with his father's arrest and john young's marriage, he decided to run for mine manager with Boss Liu's son, and gained the initiative to implement the reform. He succeeded. When he served as the Chinese mine manager in Haier Oilfield, a Sino-Japanese joint venture, he was faced with a series of reforms in personnel system, employment system, cadre system, salary system, medical system and housing system. ...

In the veritable reform and opening up, in the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, the collision of ideas, interests, Chinese and Western cultures, concepts and institutional behaviors, the collision between advanced and backward, and the collision between people's emotions ... are ups and downs, surging! Japanese mine manager Tanaka, as the person in charge of the enterprise, strictly carries out enterprise training, and China workers with low quality collide with sparks almost every day; The old father who got out of prison for meritorious service should pay attention to the second platform in Shanghai. Seeing that his son was so difficult that he didn't even have a place to cry, he set up a wonton stall to earn money to pay tuition to learn foreign languages and compete for posts ... john young borrowed a college student to send Qu Xiaoou to his brother. Qu Xiaoou, a modern woman, took the initiative to pursue Wan Tiejun, adding new factors to the already complicated emotional relationship ... Liu died unfortunately after completing the trial production of "deep sea submersible pump". Who should Wan Tiejun choose?