Zhou Zhaodi, a female textile factory worker in a small southern town, was forced to marry He Junfeng, a northern military officer, and slept in separate rooms in a cold house. Under the shackles of an arranged marriage, she was stubborn and independent. She secretly studied mechanical drawing in night school and refused to give in even though she was excluded from the workshop and had her prize deducted. He kept silent and kept his responsibility, while she fought hard to earn her dignity. From misunderstandings and confrontations to the heartthrob of her colleagues, she won the first prize in a competition with skills and counterattacked to become an engineer. He changed his career for love and followed her. A two-way journey of first marriage and then love, a counterattack life of female self-awakening. In the storm of the 1970s, she finally lived her own light.
