The summer of 1985, Jiangzhou Town, Jiangnan.
Shen Yanqiu missed the exam by three points, so her stepmother turned around and promised her a full-time job at the food station in exchange for a gift of 300 yuan. She refused to crucify her life in stoves and betrothal gifts, so she dug out the old sewing machine left by her grandmother, went to the Hetan Market, and set up a sewing stall.
Changing trousers, making new clothes, improving styles, from a beach stall to an alleyway tailor shop, to a tailor shop on the bank, she stepped on the sound of the sewing machine and sewed her own way of survival stitch by stitch.
Gu Huai, a retired engineer patrolling the embankment, was taciturn and had an old engineering injury hidden in his left hand. He would always hold down the flying fabric for her when the river wind blew up or heavy rain came.
There was no grand confession, just side by side on the river beach and staying together in the evening breeze.
Neighbors gossip, raw materials fluctuate, policies change, and in the tide of the times, two people with their own concerns put their shoulders to each other, turning the turbulent days into the evening breeze that slowly spreads across the river embankment, gentle and long.
Purpose: Set in a small town along the Yangtze River in the south of the Yangtze River in the 1980s as the background, it tells the story of a young woman who failed the college entrance examination and started from scratch with her sewing skills. She started her own business and took root in the changing tide of the times. It shows the spiritual core of ordinary women who do not rely on dependence and is independent and self-reliant, depicts the healing emotions of male and female protagonists who support each other in difficulties, and restores the real life picture and market atmosphere of individual craftsmen in the 1980s.