The story depicts a family's siblings separated a a very long age when their mother dies young and the father can no longer care for them in China. They are split up for adoption, each child to a different family. It is heart wrenching to see the pain as each child is separated. Now fast forward twenty years and one daughter who immigrated to the west, is now a reknown concert conductor who returns to China for a concert with her husband. While there she undertakes a search for her four missing siblings. Will she be able to search the vastness of China?