The year when the Chinese Civil War breaks out, three young Chinese Nationalist soldiers come across an orphaned boy when they retreat from the war. Starting from Northern China, they flee all the way to Taiwan. Eventually the three men and a child settle down in a shanty town in Taipei and meet people who become their companions. They are a family born in the war and grow on the route of migration; the burgeoning love and support they have for one another help them find a place called home, where they will spend the rest of their lives together. People can drift like dandelions, but they can also be as tough as weeds.