With five months to go before her 33rd birthday, Zhou Guqing is laid off for refusing to work overtime for free.
Unwilling to keep struggling in the big city, she leaves the place where she has spent nearly ten years trying to make it and returns to her ex-husband’s village.
Her parents despise her, her younger brother humiliates her, and in the end she loses her mind.
She catches fish in the river, plants crops in the mountains, and finds the life she always wanted.
Life is short. There are ways to live besides competing and wearing yourself down.
It's pretty, real, ordinary, and ideal.