The story tells the story of Pumei, who was born in the 1950s. His father died when he was young, and his mother almost suffered from schizophrenia as a result.
Pumei met a man when she first went to school, and entered a factory as a child laborer when she was only fifteen years old. The hardships of life came one after another like the tide------
Entering middle age, those born in the 1950s were faced with being laid off. Pu Mei and her husband had no choice but to start their own businesses. Since then, their lives have experienced ups and downs: when they succeeded, they lived in luxury cars and villas; after their failure, they lived together with the boys and girls from Beijing in a rented house with countless partitions. The cold looks from society and relatives made Pu Mei even more frustrated.
Those born in the 1950s are a generation that was born at the wrong time. What the protagonist Pumei experienced: turmoil during his student years, "stressing his diploma and making up for his shortcomings" in his youth, "being laid off and starting over from scratch" in his middle age, and "money comes first and family ties are no longer important" in his later years, can be said to be the abbreviation of the life trajectory of this generation.