In the frost of 1997, Asia's largest paper mill in Jiamusi started to reduce staff and increase efficiency, and both the technical backbone and his wife were laid off. The buyout money earned from twenty years of service, the defrauded training fees, sick children, and a life without food in the cold winter have forced this ordinary worker family into a desperate situation. He once rode a three-wheeler to make a living, borrowed money to tide over difficulties, witnessed workers being cheated, dying of illness, and desperate, and he also rescued strangers who were also laid off on cold nights. In the era of state-owned enterprise reform, the ** family held on to their homeland and family ties and struggled to support them. Finally, on that frozen New Year's Eve, a brief reunion led to tragedy.
Purpose: Through the ups and downs of ordinary workers in the transformation of the times, it writes about the survival suffering, glimmers of humanity and the pain of the times of the people at the bottom of the Northeast under the background of state-owned enterprise reform.