On the stormy evening of Army Day in 1999, an abandoned baby boy with harelips knocked on Wang Guihua's door. Faced with the incomplete life of her infant and the pleading on the note, this rural woman who already had children struggled between poverty and compassion, and finally took in this child who had been abandoned by the prejudice of the times in the name of "dog leftover". The story uses the adoption incident as a prism to reflect the survival folds of China's lower-class families in the 1990s - the rebellion and awakening of the eldest son Chen Chengyao, the astuteness and selfishness of the second daughter Chen Wenyuan, and the silent compromise of the strict father Chen Fuguo, intertwined into a web of hardship and warmth. When the mark of congenital defects hit the era of lack of medical care, when the coldness of blood confronted the warmth of upbringing, a group of ordinary people held up a life that might have fallen in the cracks, and with rough but tenacious love, wrote an annotation for the word "incomplete" that transcends the times.
Protagonist: Chen Jianjun/Gou Sheng
Intention: Harvest through growth, succeed through hard work