"Qiangzi, tell me the truth. Did you come to join your brother half for him and half for me?"
Zhang Qiang, a young man from eastern Henan Province, brought his pastry skills and a lot of debt to join his cousin Liu Meng who opened a breakfast shop in Zheng City in the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month. When he met his cousin-in-law Wang Lili for the first time, she exposed the taboo thoughts he had hidden in his heart with a straightforward probing. In the fireworks of the breakfast shop, on one side is his cousin's utilitarian calculation and cold treatment of marriage, on the other side is his cousin's gentle redemption and the passing down of craftsmanship. Zhang Qiang repeatedly struggles between the pressure of survival and his moral bottom line. The snow is falling in Zheng City, and the steamed buns are fragrant. He clings to the craftsmanship he relies on for survival, and also clings to the feelings he dares not express. In the end, he has to make a difficult choice between the dignity of "relying on others" and the heat of "the desire of the heart". This is an ambiguous pull hidden in the fireworks of the city, and it is also the survival and emotional breakthrough of a down-and-out young man in a big city.
