This film tells the story of Kong Xiu, an ordinary woman worker in a printing and dyeing factory in a small industrial city in Hebei, China, from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, who, with her excellent character of hard work, perseverance and determination, is able to break free from the shackles of two unhappy marriages, bring up her three children and grow up to be a writer in addition to her heavy workshop work.

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