In 1960, when famine swept through Loess Slope, a bowl of porridge made the baby happy. Lin Xiaohe married into the Li family and struggled to survive in the face of her mother-in-law who was robbing her of food and her silent husband. She taught the dull man to straighten his spine and support his hope with wild vegetable dumplings. When the smoke rose again, the couple who had been tempered by suffering finally understood: living is the greatest resistance.
