Time travel to 1958, Wang Jianguo has become a second-rate boy despised by everyone in the Northeast Forest Farm. Famine is approaching step by step, and his family is destitute. He accidentally obtains a mysterious compass that can predict good and bad luck. Searching for deer in the mountains and digging ginseng in the snow, he guided his family through the cold winter with the help of his compass. Faced with the humiliation of breaking up his engagement and the plot of his old friends, he no longer held back and vowed to use his hands to earn a living. From providing food and clothing for one person to leading neighbors to help each other, he protected the warmth of his family in the wind and snow of the barren years, and also wrote a simple hymn of the tenacity and survival of small people in the rapids of the times.
