The novel tells the story of five women with completely different personalities, careers, and family backgrounds who face a series of issues regarding marriage, family, workplace, love, family relationships, and education when they are about to enter middle age, the period of greatest responsibility and heaviest burden in their lives.
How do they react when their marriage becomes dull?
How do they choose when their marriage is betrayed?
When the marriage breaks down, do they stay?
How do they save themselves when their marriage completely breaks down;
When mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have conflicts, how do they deal with them?
How do they recover after their children's education fails;
When they meet their soul mates, can they fall in love?
When new love comes, can they give up their family?
When all the mid-life crises come, how can they survive them safely?
Middle age is a colorful picture. Either colorful or pale and sad. Either the years are quiet and good, or the chickens and dogs are jumping. And all the laughter and sadness experienced, whether gained or lost, will eventually be submerged in the long river of time, but they will always be imprinted in their hearts.