In 1980, Pinghai County was as poor as if it had been washed away by water. Shen Nanxing, a female worker in a state-owned straw weaving factory, plays a "marry-for-sale" game with He Changqing, a down-and-out educated youth who has lost his memory, in order to get into a separate house and enter the university. On the other hand, He Changqing, the village party secretary with a mud-legged background, has just been promoted to the position of the leader of the town, but he is faced with a poverty-stricken family and mud all over the tidal flats.
No money? Then get it from people's pockets! No land? Then build land from the sea!
