It tells the story of the rough and tough life of Xia Lanfang, the daughter of a landlord family. Born in 1942 in the Shenzhai compound, as the eldest daughter that the head of the house did not expect, she grew up in indifference and neglect. As the times changed and her family declined, she chose to marry a man from a poor background, resolutely bidding farewell to her wealthy past.
After marriage, faced with a completely different living environment and a complicated relationship between her sisters-in-law, she managed it silently with forbearance and tenacity, and struggled to integrate into another world. She gave birth to children, experienced the pain of losing her husband in middle age, shouldered the burden of life alone, and raised her children in the barren years. However, the long-term lack of communication and the estrangement of time made her children not close to her, and she suffered the blow of her grandson's early death in her later years.
She devoted her whole life to her husband and family, silently swallowing all the hardships, but she was never truly understood by those around her. Finally, he died in loneliness, taking away the silent epic belonging to a woman. This is a story about perseverance, sacrifice and loneliness, showing the tenacity and loneliness of an ordinary woman's life trajectory under the great historical changes.
