Chang, Wang and Meng are friends with very different personalities that share a common dream. Meng is pedantic, pretentious and boastful of his glorious future, Wang is a bohemian who uses pop culture to seduce women and Cheng is a country bumpkin with thick skin and an unshakeable belief in himself. Meng goes to the US to make his fortune while Wang and Cheng stay in China and eventually open the New Dream English language school which is a hit. Meng returns to join them and together, they make New Dream an enormous success and themselves very rich. Unfortunately for the three friends their school becomes involved in a scandal and they are accused by the US government of using deception in their schools international English exams. Their commitment to each other and their dreams is tested as the scandal deepens.