To desire means to desire desperately.
By revealing the social turmoil and reversal of right and wrong during the Cultural Revolution, this film tells the complicated love experience of two young couples and reveals people's desire for love, family affection, friendship and a better life. The play organically integrates everything about life and human nature into the background of the great social era. Coupled with the outstanding performances of the actors, it has high social aesthetic value. The period from the late 1960s to the late 1980s was a very special period in Chinese history, full of dramatic changes. It experienced chaos, turmoil, and then emerged from chaos. The story of "Desire" begins with a complicated love affair. The young and beautiful female worker Liu Huifang hesitates in the face of two suitors. One is Song Dacheng, deputy director of the workshop, and the other is Wang Husheng, a college graduate who comes to work in the factory. She longs for love, but the former is kind to her, while the latter is in trouble and needs help, which makes her in a dilemma. Wang Husheng's father was a famous scholar who was suddenly arrested at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution and his whereabouts are unknown. His mother was worried and died of an illness. His sister Wang Yaru was a doctor. After seeing her fiancé Luo Gang off to the cadre school, she found out that she was pregnant. She ignored Luo Gang's wishes. To dissuade her, she secretly gave birth to a daughter and named her Luo Dan. Luo Gang suddenly returned to Beijing late at night. Wang Yaru was surprised and did not notice that his expression was different. Luo Gang took his daughter and left quietly, leaving a letter telling him that he was wanted. , there is no hope of survival, let Wang Yaru forget him. Liu Huifang and Wang Husheng got married, and Liu developed maternal love for the abandoned baby Liu she picked up. Wang was reluctant and had to take him in and named him Liu Xiaofang. A year later, they had their own child - Wang Dongdong.