There is no golden finger in the novel about escape from famine in the Republic of China.
The Luo family has no elders or brothers, leaving only the widowed sister-in-law Luo Mei and the single brother-in-law.
Li Aihua, who fled from famine, married Erzhu. In order to keep a wife for her eldest son, her son adopted her and she became what the child calls her aunt.
From harboring grudges to relying on each other, the three miserable people spend their days together.
The barriers are gone, everything is warm, and a complete family is pieced together in troubled times.
