Hardship Makes Greatness

This is the story of Xin Nianqiu and Chen Donglai, inheritors of Cantonese embroidery, as they struggle to build a business, boldly innovate, and ultimately make a success of it. They are like little trees sprouting on the plains, battling nature day after day, year after year. More often, they choose to embrace it: the thunder and lightning, the wind and rain, the drought and the damage. They put down roots in the soil, and little by little, their laughter and anger grow quiet. Hardship and adversity help them flourish. If they truly had to be summed up in five words, it would probably be this: living life earnestly. They are the most ordinary of people. They are themselves, and perhaps they are us...