Glory in the Seventies, Starting with the College Entrance Exam

The day after Shi Xia and her younger brother Shi Lin took the 1977 college entrance exam, their father, a postal worker, broke his leg while delivering mail and was hospitalized. Their grandfather, eldest uncle, and third uncle couldn’t care less what happened to the family. They took their father’s job, cut ties with them, and kicked them out of the house.

The Shi siblings pass the college entrance exam and head to different cities. Watch as their family, now split between three places, finds its own path in life in the late 1970s…