年关将至，中年编剧王自亮独自背负层层重压，周旋在事业、家庭、人际关系等多重问题中，倍感“年关难过”，母亲最大的愿望，就是和四个儿女一起回老家吃年夜饭，然而，复杂的成人世界牵扯着孩子们。母亲的一次意外受伤，一家人的关系降至冰点，三代人的矛盾被推上 了风口浪尖……经过选择和考验，儿女们回归亲情，意识到“妈在的地方才是家”，日子再难，没有过不去的年。

The new year is approaching, the middle-aged screenwriter Wang Ziliang (Wu Gang) alone is burdened by layers of stress, dealing with multiple issues such as career, family, and interpersonal relationships, feeling "sad in the new year". The biggest wish of his mother (Wu Yanshu) is to go back to her hometown for New Year's Eve dinner with her four children. However, the complicated adult world involves the children. When mother is injured in an accident, the family's relationship dropped to a freezing point, and the conflicts between the three generations were pushed to the forefront... After choices and trials, the children returned to family's love and realized that "home is where mother is." No matter how difficult life is, there will be no years that can't be passed.