In an urban village composed of dense assembly lines and "handshake buildings" in Dongguan, a group of migrant workers are struggling for a small hope. Assembly team leader Li Jianjun and his wife Wang Xiuying, a quality inspector, spent their youth on the assembly line for ten years just to save money for their son to go to college; the thorny Liu Zhiqiang and his wife Chen Fang failed to set up a stall in the night market and were saddled with loan sharks; the honest man Zhang Jianguo and the canteen cook Zhao Xiaomei's "house building fund" saved by frugality for six years was wiped out in an instant due to their father's serious illness.
When the factory intensified its wage deductions and differential treatment, a strike initiated by Liu Zhiqiang was brewing. Although Li Jianjun was promoted to deputy director, he fell into the torture of conscience over the layoff of workers. After negotiations, disagreements, fire scares and whistle-blowing incidents, the fifteen people who took the lead in the resistance were eventually fired from Optimization. When they were desperate, they used confiscated tools and only more than 2,000 yuan to set up the "Workers Maintenance Department" in a ten-square-meter rental house.
From operating without a license and being fined by urban management to reporting by reporters and receiving legal aid, this group of abandoned "old masters" developed their small workshops into regular repair shops with their excellent craftsmanship and the belief that they would never give up on each other. A year later, when the new sign of "Gongyou Electrical Repair Service Center" was put up, Li Jianjun and Wang Xiuying planned to open a milk tea shop next to the university town. Their son Xiaotao also decided to return after graduation, and the family would work together to create their own brand "Gongyou" for migrant workers.
