在济南打工的小五经表哥介绍在一家酒店做后厨学徒，他想尽快赚到彩礼钱，娶到媳妇儿，了却爷爷的心愿。在同事大岭的指导下，他学会了吉他，开始痴迷音乐，并到街头卖唱，也因此认识了丁慧。

和大部分家庭一样，杰瑞特一家人过着稳定而又平静的生活，卡尔文（唐纳德·萨瑟兰 Donald Sutherland）不仅是一个工作上矜矜业业的正直律师，同时也将父亲和丈夫的角色扮演得十分出色，和妻子贝丝（玛丽·泰勒·摩尔 Mary Tyler Moore 饰）结婚二十余载，两人的感情分外稳定。 身为杰瑞特家的大儿子，伯克（Scott Doebler 饰）享受着更多的关心与爱，身为小儿子的康纳德（蒂莫西·赫顿 Timothy Hutton 饰）对此却并不在意。一次意外中，伯克溺水身亡，悲痛欲绝的贝丝迁怒于当时和伯克在一起的康纳德，这让后者十分痛苦与自责，好在有卡尔文的陪伴和关心，他内心的创伤才渐渐治愈。然而，当他再次鼓起勇气向母亲索取温暖的时候，贝丝的举动却让他的心再一次坠入了冰窖。

In early-1900s Milwaukee, bank clerk August Schiller is happy with his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blonde seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakens alone in a dilapidated bedroom without the securities. He finds the woman and pleads with her to return the stolen securities. When he also threatens her, he is knocked unconscious by the saloon owner and dragged to a nearby railroad track. As the crooks strips him of his ID and papers, Schiller recovers and struggles with the saloon owner, ultimately throwing him into the path of an oncoming train, killing him. Schiller flees and, as he is about to take his own life, sees in a newspaper that he is supposedly dead. The saloon owner's mangled body had been identified as Schiller's. Twenty years pass. Schiller is now aged, unkempt, and employed to pick up trash in a park. He sees his own family go to a cemetery and place a wreath on his grave. Following other scenes in a Christmas snowstorm, Schiller makes his way to his former home, where he sees that the son whom he had taught to play violin is now a successful musician. He walks away, carrying in his pocket a dollar that his son gave him, not realizing that the old tramp was his father.

Meek head clerk Kees Popinga realises at the same time as the police that owner De Koster has stripped his Dutch company clean because of his infatuation with a Parisian girl, Michelle. After a confrontation between the two men, De Koster ends up dead and Popinga makes off to Paris with the remaining money. There he contacts Michelle, with the police in close pursuit.

女主角丽塔是一个对日常生活感到厌烦的美发师，她决定要增加自己在文学上的知识。在命运的安排下，她成了弗兰克教授的学生。他是一个从幻想中清醒过来的酒鬼，与丽塔彼此从对方身上学到了生活的真谛。

时代浪潮褪去，这群凡夫俗女在满地鸡毛的生活废墟上，笨拙地拼凑家的原貌。

隐于市井的铁蛋有着不为人知的双重身份，既是龙神殿殿主，也是天神资本的掌舵人。他隐匿行踪，只为查清当年父母意外事故的真相，一心只想与爱人秋雅安稳度日。 可神殿内部突发变故，副殿主幽冥起兵生乱，白清风在背后暗中布局，拉拢京城世家、海外家族与杀手势力接连制造重重危机，不断给二人的生活带来磨难。 面对接踵而至的风波，铁蛋选择不再低调，展露自身全部实力。他拼尽全力守护秋雅，化解神殿内部矛盾，破除多方势力的层层算计，还原过往事件的全部真相。历经重重考验，所有风波尘埃落定，铁蛋与秋雅举行盛大婚礼，相守奔赴圆满余生。

武当弟子林启奉师命下山成亲，救下霍如海后暂住山海武馆，因举起万斤鼎被霍宁儿视为天命之人。在踢馆战中他击败强敌，又于武道大会识破武魂殿阴谋，殿主越山刚掳走霍宁儿欲夺其龙髓凤体。林启最终击杀越山刚，救回霍宁儿，两人成婚，江城重归平静。

贺长安为帮弟弟成婚，娶了被旁人议论的林小满。婚宴未结束，二人便被迫分家，仅带着微薄物资住进破旧小屋，全村都等着看他们落魄。可林小满聪慧能干，懂识药善算账，还做得一手绝佳卤味。贺长安也放下打猎，陪着妻子摆摊谋生。夫妻俩相互扶持，在艰苦日子里踏实打拼，一步步把小日子过得红火兴旺。

白云观失火后师娘失踪，弟子楚凡身怀神针、兵权、黑卡等至宝下山赴二十年婚约，反被唐家当众羞辱撕毁婚书。他展露医术武力，救人挫敌、打脸豪门、收拢势力横扫天州。待到修为突破，师娘归来，楚凡揭开自身惊天宿命，从受辱小人物蜕变为翻覆天地的真龙。