After the demolition notice goes up, widow Wang Guilan becomes the juiciest target in the village.
Her old 98-square-meter home comes with 4.26 million yuan in compensation.
Before she can even get her hands on the money, her in-laws have already set their sights on it.
That very day, her younger brother-in-law, Wang Youzhi, climbs over the wall and barges into the yard with an iron bar, demanding she hand over two million yuan.
Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhao, blocks the door and curses her, slapping her thighs as she insists the Wang family cannot be left without an heir, and that the money must not go to those two little girls.
The villagers aren't on her side either. Some advise her to keep the peace, while others demand she give them 200,000 yuan to build a road, warning that a woman with that much money is bound to come to harm.
Worse still, a thug of a distant nephew breaks into her home in the middle of the night, shoves her down beside the stove, and leaves her needing three stitches in her forehead.
Everyone thinks that a woman without a son can't hold on to her money.
Looking at her two daughters, Wang Guilan refuses to back down for the first time.
She doesn't argue or cry.
That night, she pulls a kitchen knife from beneath the stove and stands behind the courtyard gate, refusing to budge.
Only later do they learn that the thing that sent them all to prison was never that knife.
It was the recordings, the evidence, the reports, and the calls to the police.
After twenty years of being bullied, Wang Guilan will not give an inch this time.
She'll make everyone who tried to take her money find out what it feels like to go to prison.
