In the twelfth lunar month of 1953 in Peking, Shen Yan fainted from the cold on the street and was rescued by the miserable widow Wang Xiuzhi. Yan Bugui, Jia Jia, and Liu Haizhong all covet the Wang family's real estate. As a dependent, he saw through the greedy intentions of his neighbors and worked step by step to protect his mother, daughter and ancestral home.
