品味新闻台编辑台主管宋乔安（贾静雯 饰）的儿子是二年前李晓明无差别杀人事件的罹难者，她先生刘昭国（温升豪 饰）是网络先驱报的创办人，夫妻在儿子走后因现实磨难渐行渐远，已经走到了离婚边缘。他们11岁的女儿行为日渐失序，为了女儿着想，二人被迫重新检视自己身上的伤口。李晓明的辩护律师王赦（吴慷仁 饰）在他死刑定案之后，仍想要了解其犯罪动机。锲而不舍的王赦，开启了众人命运的连结……

上世纪90年代，从宁夏贫瘠甲天下的西海固地区搬迁到玉泉营地区的移民们，从无到有地建设着他们的新家园，村干部马得福（黄轩 饰）操心着通电、灌溉用水等桩桩件件的问题，他足够努力，却不自信未来什么时候来。直到国家新的扶贫政策出台，福建对宁夏的扶贫事业进行对口援助，并建立了合作样板闽宁村，陈金山（郭京飞 饰）、凌一农（黄觉 饰）等一批优秀的福建干部、技术人员为闽宁镇洒下奋斗的汗水，帮助得福找到了未来的方向，白麦苗（黄尧 饰）、马得宝（白宇帆 饰）、李水花（热依扎 饰）等村里的年轻人也通过劳务输入、发展庭院经济等收获了自信。在发展的过程中，传统与现代，物质文明与精神文明，寻根与断根等问题不断突显，对于马喊水（张嘉益 饰）、白校长（祖峰 饰）、李大有（尤勇智 饰）这些上一辈的人们而言，挑战和转变也在不断发生着。从西海固走出的人们没有忘记他们的初心，他们没有断根，而是把根扎在了这片更肥沃的地方，互相扶持着走上了康庄大道。

It tells the story of villagers from Ningxia who migrated and built Minning Town from scratch. The government wants to build the rural housing land and encourages the farmers of Xiji Country to migrate or relocate. However, the conditions of the desert are too harsh. The villagers who moved there mostly left the second day. Ma Defu tries his best to get the villagers to stay and build the Minning Town. In 1996, the Party Central Committee made a strategic plan to promote counterpart cooperation between the East and the West, which identified Fujian counterparts to promote poverty alleviation work in Ningxia. As time passes, Minning Town was given a new lease of life.

A ten-part hour-long series that follows the aftermath of a mass-shooting where all parties involved - the killer, the victims, the victims’ families, the media and the defense teams, whose fates are all intertwined.