Cui Xiaowen, who grew up in the city and was known as the "big sister" of an ancient county town, and Hu Qiumei, a simple, honest, and resilient girl raised in the countryside, enter the glittering metropolis. Amid all its glamour, who will write their lives, and who will control their destinies?
As reform and opening up entered the 1990s, the whole country was transformed by the winds of reform. The sun does not shine equally on every inch of land, and the rain does not water every stretch of wasteland equally. In a small city in the northeastern corner of the Wumeng Mountains, and a little mountain village on the southern bank of the Chishui River, a group of young women face a new life. Some are lost, some helpless, some give up, some persevere, some accept their fate, and some defy it, all composing a song of youth. One of them might be you. It might be me.
The countless ordinary people who come into this world are but specks of dust. Whether our lives are long or short, all things eventually come to an end. Since life is suffering, why not be like ants building a nest, and gather up small gains along the way?
Theme: Amid the tide of reform, who controls our fate? We must say no to fate.
