元朝畫家黃公望繪出《富春山居圖》，把當時富春江兩岸風景流傳後世。滄海桑田，今天的富陽迎來跨時代變遷，都市規劃及基建為備戰2022年杭州亞運會而發展得如火如荼。此時此刻，富春江畔一個家族同樣遭逢巨變，老母親在壽宴中突然中風，要由四兄弟輪流照顧，偏偏家家有本難唸的經，四個家庭面對親情與生活的考驗時會如何取捨？在四季交替中，人情冷暖如山水畫卷般展開⋯⋯導演顧曉剛耕植紀錄片數載，重返故鄉富陽後受環境變化觸動，啟發他創作首部長片，結合歷史記憶與時代更迭，呈現當代中國的城市景觀與人文風貌。視覺概念源自中國山水畫的散點透視，藉遠山淡景的長鏡頭拍出詩畫般的意境，交織數個家庭的故事，突顯時間的軌跡與空間的無限。

Sharing its title with a 14th-century landscape scroll painting, Gu Xiaogang’s ambitious directorial debut gradually and artfully unfurls vignettes of ordinary life. Set in the writer-director’s hometown of Fuyang, the sweeping, slow-burning drama introduces an elderly matriarch and her four sons, and follows the changes in their families and fortunes over the four seasons of a year. The first in a planned trilogy of films about life along the Yangtze River, this meticulous portrait of a familial clan and a community in the midst of transformation has drawn comparisons to Edward Yang for its eloquent observation of the mundane yet meaningful ebb and flow of life.