树(王宝强 饰)的父亲亲手杀死了树的大哥,后来父亲去世了,但两人影像却时常浮现在他脑海。在汽修铺工作中,他开始眼花,后来出了工伤,住进医院,护士苹苹(何洁 饰)给他拆线时,厂长将他辞退了。他的家面临拆迁,因为村长小舅子在这开矿,他感到十分无助,没事在村里闲逛,与朋友喝酒, 没钱就向弟弟伸手。某天,他碰到了朋友的表妹张小梅(谭卓 饰),一见钟情。但在相亲中,他发现小梅是个聋哑女孩。然而,这并没有阻隔他们的爱情。朋友结婚,他卖力地张罗,却无意中得罪了村长的小舅子,受到侮辱。一气之下,他来到城里找朋帮忙。在朋友的奥校打工时,他见证了朋友搞婚外情的事实。他通过短信跟小梅传情,最终决定与她结婚。然而,这场婚礼却进行得异常艰难……The vast and snowy landscapes of northern China form the striking backdrop to the story of Shu, whose name translates to 'tree' in Mandarin, a clownish mechanic who resides in a small mining village in the province of Jilin. Shu has a reputation as a slacker, a drunk and a danger to himself and others. He blinds himself temporarily while welding. He meets a fetching mute named Xiaomei who works at a massage parlor and decides to marry her, but this too falls apart. Meanwhile, Shu's village seems as doomed as he is. The film opens on a van saddled with loudspeakers, which roams the village offering consumer goods as bribes to townsfolk in the hope that they'll willingly uproot themselves to make way for modern property developments. As with so many rural places in China, a way of life is vanishing under the wheels of progress. Teased by hallucinations and haunted by tragic events from his past, Shu struggles with an ever-loosening grip on reality. Yet when one of his visions manifests as real, his fellow villagers come to regard him as clairvoyant. Can Shu genuinely see into the future? Is he actually just a basket case? Or is he perhaps more lucid than he seems, and pulling a fast one on everyone?