Shen Xiuying is the most useless wife in Qingxi Town. Eight years after marrying into the Lin family, her mother-in-law Wang Cuihua was used as her livestock, and her husband Lin Daqiang beat her to death when he got drunk. Until that day, she delivered the baby for Zhao Chunyan who was having difficulty giving birth, and an injection of oxytocin saved both mother and daughter's lives - but she was falsely accused by her mother-in-law of "seduce men" and was imprisoned in the ancestral hall. Xiuying smiled. In her arms she carried a simple tool kit brought back from modern times, which contained penicillin, suture needles and a "Barefoot Doctor's Manual". When the director of the town health center asserted that "pregnant women must die," Xiuying rolled up her sleeves and said, "Let me do it." A dose of antibiotics crushed the so-called secret medicine; a scalpel cut open the hypocrisy of the vampire family. She teamed up with her divorced sister Shen Xiulan and Widow Wang who was sold as a child bride. Starting from a tape of Hong Kong and Taiwan songs, she uncovered the chain of interests that colluded between the town's health system and clan forces. But as the truth gets closer and closer to that person, Xiuying discovers that what she wants to heal most is not her body, but her father, the "barefoot doctor" who disappeared on the other side of the continent on that rainy night twenty years ago.
