To Live

In 1940s China, Xu Fugui (Ge You) is a rich landowner's son who gambles away the family house, leaving his wife Jiazhen (Gong Li) to raise their children in a much smaller life. Zhang Yimou follows the family through the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Through all of it, Fugui and Jiazhen keep coming back to the same small table, each other's company the one thing the years leave them.