鐵蛋的愛情開(kāi)始得早，八歲就戀上了鄰家巧婦美姐。文革禁唱(chàng)地方戲曲二人台，也驅離(lí)了美姐一(yī)家人。輾轉十多年，鐵蛋俨然已是條漢子。随着美姐與三個女兒返鄉，看似忘不掉美姐，鐵蛋先與其大(dà)女兒私戀未果，卻被迫娶了二女兒作爲「補償」。最後決定跟着戲班子流浪，随他出門的卻是美姐家的老三。有道是二人台不是天天有，情歌永遠唱(chàng)不完。
Sister May is beautiful young woman who returns to her home village in Shanxi after spending time at West Side, Inner Mongolia. She has a nice singing voice, and is adored by Tie dan'er, a six-year-old boy from an impoverished family. But when the Cultural Revolution starts, Sister May and her family once again leave for West Side. Twelve years later, Sister May comes back to the village, no longer looking like the woman that Tie dan'er was once so in love with. However, her first daughter is an 18-year-old beauty, who very much resembles the Sister May of Tie dan'er's memory. Tie dan'er and the first daughter begin dating, but their relationship is cut short when Sister May arranges her eldest child to be married to a young man from West Side. Afraid of the emotional outbursts of Tie dan'er, Sister May allows him to marry her second daughter, although the arranged bride is mute and looks nothing like her mother. Unhappy with married life, Tie dan'er joins a show group as a singer, taking pleasure in entertaining village audiences and living life on the road. He becomes the Deputy Leader of the show group, but complicatio
ns ensue when Sister May's third daughter wants to join the company. She also looks like Sister May, and the moment that Tie dan'er sets eyes on her, buried passion is reignited.
