During the famine in the 1960s, Wang Guixiang, a woman from Lucheng, took her family to escape from the famine in Guandong to the north. From a bitter daughter-in-law who endured humiliation to survive, she became a domineering mother-in-law, but in the hardships she became the evil mother-in-law she hated most. She became paralyzed and bedridden in her later years, and ended up regretting the miserable life of a generation of lower-class women trapped in the times.
