Left-Behind Women in Yunling Village

In China's rural villages, where the rush to find work is in full swing, young adults leave home in droves to seek jobs in the developed coastal regions. Their young wives stay behind to care for the family, look after the old and young, and tend to their small plots of land. These women face loneliness and emptiness, love and heartache, and the struggle to build a livelihood without bowing to fate! Away from home, the men face the temptations of a glittering world and hold fast to their principles. Together, they form the distinctive emotional bonds of that era. People rise and fall amid the desires of everyday life, fight their way along life's path, and become entangled in ever more complicated relationships, while also finding joy in success.

The story follows women left behind as they seek their own value amid hardship, rebuild family relationships, and grow as individuals, revealing the theme that “family is not a cage, but a harbor that can be rebuilt.”