Lin Yuanzhou, a nationally recognized inheritor of woodcarving, a listed intangible cultural heritage, opens his eyes and finds himself back in 1983. His father is gravely ill, the family owes the production team fifty yuan, his younger siblings are gaunt with hunger, and the team leader has brought people to seize their sewing machine as payment. In his previous life, he had extraordinary skills but left home for twenty years. By the time he returned, his family had fallen apart. This time, he decides to stay and use his many talents to support them. He repairs sewing machines, carves wooden pieces, and hunts for antiques, starting beside a battered sewing machine and moving steadily forward in the fresh winds of reform. But just as he earns his first bit of money, Sun Ergou, a local thug, shows up at his door. A much greater storm is closing in.
