The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world’s largest, and China’s biggest engineering feat since the Great Wall. It also represents the end to a way of life and livelihood for two million people along the Yangtze. Among those forced to relocate are the Yu family. With few options available to them, they send their oldest daughter Yu Shui to work on a cruise ship. Working for the same cruise line is Chen Bo Yu, good looking and proficient in English, Jerry (as he is renamed by the cruise line), sees this as a stepping stone to bigger and better things, while Yu Shui (renamed Cindy) would prefer to continue her education.