The story unfolds in a house on the southern coast that fell into the gap between the times. It describes how women across three generations grew up in silence, sank in the noise, and slowly lived out their own shapes in the gray shadow of family and history.
A wealthy family fell apart in the turmoil of the last century. The baby boy was taken away by a servant and fled. He grew up to rebuild the family business and build a mansion. The gold cup of chocolate in the sugar bowl, the gold watch hidden in the bamboo pole, the mixed sofa and overseas objects form the clues of the family's broken and connected bloodline.
Five daughters and one son, each with a different fate, left their own traces in this house. Some people were exchanged for pickles, some wandered all their lives, some were beautiful and entered rich families and were eventually abandoned, while others became strangers as they lived.
The third generation grew up in the new era, and re-understood their fate from the perspective of spectators, and understood the "first half of their lives" that they had never spoken about.
There are no big winds and waves, only the pressing years; there are no earth-shattering events, only the whispers of a room full of women at the coffee table.
Purpose: By telling the rise, fall and emotional entanglements of an ordinary family in the era of change, it demonstrates family ties, responsibilities and perseverance and compromise under the torrent of the times. It depicts the fate of characters in a small coastal town, reflects the perseverance and struggle of families and individuals, and explores the collision between tradition and modernity.