On a rainy night, Lin Xiaoyu clutched the Miao silver thimble left by her mother and the stuffed tiger doll holding her son, and fled from Miaoshan, Guizhou to Guangzhou. When she was young, she was bound by the old customs in the mountains, and she was betrayed by domestic violence after marriage. She was like a bracken that was stepped into the mud, but still managed to sprout.
Without education or support, she once struggled in the gray area of a village in the city, but she embroidered her concern for her son into a puppet and woven the courage to defend her rights into a folk song. Later, he opened the "Miaoshan Embroidery Workshop", led his sisters to do Miao embroidery and set up a tea cooperative, used embroidery to hide evidence of domestic violence, and used the "Cocoon Breaking Fund" to help girls in the mountains get out of trouble.
She never appears on camera, but she makes the stitches of Miao embroidery shine: every "anti-marriage flower" hides the courage to break free, and every silver bracelet is engraved with the hope of rebirth. You will wonder how this woman who escaped holding half a piece of roasted sweet potato could use a thread to weave her own way of survival and also light up the tomorrow of a group of people.
