Lu Xiang, the “pricing queen” of a top global art fund, throws away her million-yuan salary with a resignation letter and returns to a small Jiangnan town with her suitcase in tow.
Her master left her a century-old embroidery workshop and three veteran embroiderers who are nearly two hundred years old between them.
Everyone is waiting to see her make a fool of herself. How can a Wall Street hotshot who can barely hold a needle preserve this craft?
Later, she builds the country’s largest women’s folk-arts association for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, forcing the investors to bow their heads.
A reporter asks how she did it.
She glances at the three elderly women behind her.
“They taught me one thing: the softest silk thread can stitch together the hardest bones.”
