Throughout the 80's' financial reform period, three undergraduates bind together by a frequent vision -- to live the American dream. They are a hillbilly who refuses to accept his destiny to be a farmer, Cheng Dongqing. Meng Xiaojun, a self-confident, cynical intellectual. An romantic poet, and Wang Yang. Xiaojun may be your first for studying abroad, to get an US Visa. Yang follows but decides to remain in China due to his cherished. The US Embassy rejects poor Dongqing . Baffledhe reluctantly accepts the job but finally gets fired for instruction tutorial classes . Across the Pacific, Xiaojun neglects to find a decent job and has been driven to behave as a bus boy in a diner.