In 1995, Liu Xiulan retired honorably, and with the pride of her "honorable retirement" enamel teapot, she welcomed her daughter-in-law Zhou Wanyu. One is an old worker who has worked for 28 years and believes in the life philosophy of "hardship is blessing"; the other is a cosmetics salesperson in a department store, looking for his own position in the wave of market economy. Fifteen-watt light bulbs, scattered sofa cushions, and work and rest schedules that never match up—these tiny frictions accumulate day after day in the wedding room on the sixth floor. The mother-in-law thinks her daughter-in-law is squeamish, the daughter-in-law thinks her mother-in-law is harsh, and her son Zhiyuan is annoyed by both sides, but no one can persuade her. Until the wave of layoffs swept across, Zhiyuan lost his "iron rice bowl", and the balance of the family was completely broken. Faced with the heavy pressure of life, the two women had to put aside their own stubbornness, re-examine each other and the meaning of "home" amid the great changes of the times.
