It tells the story of the bumpy and tortuous life of Xiulian, a rural girl. When she was young, Xiulian was tired of studying and was fond of playing, and fell in love too early. She went to a foreign country to marry a man from other places and gave birth to two children. After the marriage broke up, the children were temporarily taken care of by her. Later, her youngest son was injured in a car accident, and her biological father filed a lawsuit to regain custody of the child. After that, she met friends from other villages, but their fate broke up briefly. After returning to her hometown, she met many men from the same village one after another. She gave birth to a third son out of wedlock with one of them, but the man left without saying goodbye. In the end, she was unable to stay with her three children. The book uses rural life as the background, records the heroine's life experiences of separation and separation, and the separation of flesh and blood, and reflects the daily joys and sorrows of ordinary rural women who are bound by their youthful choices.