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- Based on the novel of the same name by Chen Yan, Zhuang Tai (Stagehands) depicts the lives of a group of stagehands in a regional Shaanxi Opera theatre, as they struggle to make a better living in the city of Xi'an, together with the life and death, bitter and sweet, tears and laughters, happening to them and the people around them. Amongst whom the male lead Zhang Jiayi as Diao Shunzi, a seasoned middle aged stagehand, stubbornly and optimistically maneuvering the dramas and hurdles in his family life, personal finances, and love life.
- The nostalgic account of the lives of the Beijing working class residing in the ghetto-ish quad-court from the late 60s to the early 90s. The stories are told around a frank and outspoken factory canteen chef nicknamed "Shazhu" (dumb pole), a widowed single mother of 3 young children, who eventually become Shazhu's wife, a cunning and snobbish theatre projectionist who is Shazhu's life long foe, as well as the various characters inside and outside the old quad-court, as they navigate through the Cultural Revolution, the economic reform, and the blooming 90s.