After graduating from high school, Lin Wan came to the provincial capital from the mountain village with a canvas bag on her back, and joined her aunt Su Mei who had already taken root in the city. She thought this place was a paradise of "opportunities everywhere", but in the musty smell of the attic and the noise of the garment factory assembly line, she tasted the complexity and disgust of human nature - the cold eyes of team leader Zhang Cuilan, the rejection of female worker Li Hong, and the embarrassment of her aunt hiding her in the attic during parties. She was like a speck of dust blown into the city by the wind, even breathing with caution.
But the tenacity of a country girl is hidden deep in her bones. She hid her fingers full of needle holes in her cuffs, secretly picked up scraps of drawings discarded by designer Chen Xi, and finished reading each fashion design book under the dim light of the attic. From the "stupid country girl" who nailed the wrong button to the "skilled hand" who saved an urgent order with a pearl button, to winning the night school design competition and getting a studio internship opportunity, Lin Wan used stitches to mend her dignity and fought against prejudice with love.
