Taking a repressed family as a microcosm, it tells the tragedy of two generations trapped by fate and worldliness. Xiumin's father once dreamed of playing the violin, but was forced into an arranged marriage by his elders. After the marriage, his unwillingness turned into violence. Farces of infidelity, domestic violence and divorce were staged in turn. In the end, the two barely managed to stay together despite exhaustion. Xiumin inherited her mother's meekness. The university place she earned through studying hard was replaced by someone else. She married into a wolf's den under the arrangement of her parents, and was bullied and disfigured by her mother-in-law. Her husband's family is in a mess: the eldest sister-in-law is greedy for money and constantly plunders her parents' family; the two sisters-in-law have a miserable fate. One was abandoned due to pregnancy and became insane after an abortion, and the other accidentally killed her own child due to trivial family matters; The violin in the old house is covered with dust, and the struggle and sinking of the two generations illustrate the sadness and helplessness that ordinary people can't escape from in the quagmire of fate.
