Lin Yue, 26, is one of Shanghai's countless overworked office drones. After four years of hard work, she became one of the “redundant parts” cut in her company's drive to “reduce costs and improve efficiency.”
Before the shock of losing her job could wear off, her mother, who had spent her entire career as an elementary school teacher in their hometown county, lured her back home under the pretext of feeling unwell.
What awaited her was no warm haven, but a series of carefully orchestrated “makeover plans”: take the civil service exam, go on blind dates, and follow the “perfect life” path her parents had mapped out. In this familiar yet strange home, Lin Yue realizes she's become a “full-time daughter” who must be on call 24/7, earns no salary, and is constantly judged.
When her declaration that she wants to “live for herself” collides with the familial shackles of “we're doing this for your own good,” war between the generations is inevitable. With a city she can't return to on one side and a hometown she can't stay in on the other, Lin Yue stands at a crossroads. Will she give in, or launch an “independence war” of her own?
