In the 1980s, rural youth Chen Shoutian went south to Guangdong to support his family. He has endured construction sites and assembly lines, seen good and evil, loved and lost, but still cannot understand the trends of the times. In the end, there was no counterattack, only debt repayment, return home, and an ordinary life. This is a true microcosm of the millions of workers who migrated south: the big times are grand and vigorous, but the little people are ordinary.
