Springtime in the Secretarial Office

On the eve of restructuring at an established machinery plant in Binhai, its newly appointed secretary, Lin Sui, is unexpectedly caught in a three-way power struggle: the parachuted-in “reformist” plant director, the deputy director and “old guard” who has held sway for twenty years, and private capital waiting to pounce. As the factory's only highly educated employee born in the 1990s with an international business negotiation certificate, she has no choice but to rely on the most traditional kind of Chinese wisdom. From the wording of meeting minutes and the scheduling of leaders' appointments to the temperature of the tea, she defuses one crisis after another, ultimately protecting the livelihoods of three thousand workers amid the wave of restructuring.