In Central China, on the banks of the river Danin that runs towards the Yang-Tse, a village, a family : the father, the mother and their four children. Today, the river has become a lake. Half the village has been flooded, deserted and soon all will disapper. A few months after the inauguration of the <>, thr largest dam in the world, whose huge proportions reminds one of the Great wall, the family disperses it self, caught between tradition and the modern changes, between dreams and memories.