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14-year-old Midori is the constantly abused chore girl for a freakshow. Things begin to change for her after a dwarf magician joins the freak show, but not always for the better.

Ren Jie, Zhou Xinlei, and Shen Xiaorou are three girls who were born on the same day but led vastly different lives. On their 22nd birthday, fate brought them together. In an upscale restaurant, Zhou Jianlong, the chairman of Zhou Group, celebrated the 22nd birthday of his step-daughter, Xinlei. Nothing ever worried Xinlei, because no matter what happened, her step-father would be there to take care of it. However, over the course of the dinner, her stepfather suffered a heart attack and died. Little did anyone know that Zhou secretly left a will; while the mansion and $50,000,000 would be given to his wife and step-daughter, all of his company stocks would belong to his missing birth daughter. Upon hearing this, the ambitious executive vice chairman, along with his right-hand man, hired Ren Jie to assume the role of the missing daughter. Using Ren Jie, he could control the entire company. Meanwhile, policewoman Shen Xiaorou was upset because the pervert she caught was released on bail. She went out to search for him and beat him up. Her actions caused her to be reprimanded by her superior. In a fit of rage, she quit her job. Afterwards, she went to Zhou Group to apply as a security guard, and eventually ended up being Ren Jie's bodyguard.

The sublime opening sequence of Dust in the Wind follows a nearly imperceptible diffused white speck - perhaps the referential "dust" of the film's evocative title - as it momentarily shifts location near the center of the frame then continues on its inexorable course, gradually converging to reveal a light at the end of a tunnel from onboard a lumbering passenger train. It is an indelible metaphor for what would prove to be the bittersweet experience of first love in the lives of the two high school students commuting on the train: a pensive and diligent young man named Wan (Wang Jingwen) and his reticent, devoted girlfriend Huen (Xin Shufen). Faced with limited opportunity for his academic competency beyond handwriting dictated letters for illiterate neighbors in the bucolic peasant village (a seemingly inescapable reality reinforced by his father's comment, "If you want to be a cow, there will always be a plow for you."wink.gif, Wan decides to forgo his senior high school education and move to Taipei. Finding work as a printing press operator at a modest, family-run shop during the day - a job that was only made palatable by his unlimited opportunity to read the assortment of literature being published while typesetting - Wan is determined to further his education by attending evening classes, and strives to forge a career beyond the socio-economic sphere of his provincial coal mining hometown (where a night of carousing for the miners invariably ends up in a comic display of masculine competition involving the displacement of large rocks onto the street). After graduation, the less scholarly Huen follows Wan to Taipei and obtains a respectable job as a seamstress at a dressmaking shop that includes room and board, allowing her to occasionally send money home to her family. The film then follows the plight of the young couple as they drift through the waning days of adolescence between their humble work lives in Taipei and periodic visits to their hometown, reluctantly awaiting Wan's inevitable military conscription with the reassurring knowledge that they will be able to marry after completing his compulsory service.