After graduation, female college student Zhao Yanqing was forced to embark on the road of survival by stealing plastic bottles from waste pickers and selling them for money due to family changes and employment difficulties. She wanders between moral struggles and realistic oppression every day, and gradually discovers the undercurrent of survival behind the scavengers. After experiencing a confrontation with waste pickers, alienation from the city's rescue system, and a tear in her identity, she finally found a glimmer of light in her ordinary life and redefined the meaning of survival.
