In the summer of 1985, nineteen-year-old Yang Yun catches her father having an affair with a widow. Instead of receiving an apology, she falls victim to their carefully staged sob story and is hastily married off to the Li family in Longwan Village for a bride price of 1,000 yuan. On their wedding night, her husband, Li Lei, is summoned away by the forty-five-year-old widow Liu Xiaohong. The two have secretly been involved for nearly ten years. The whole village waits to see the new bride humiliated, but her fiery, fiercely protective mother-in-law, Zhang Dongmei, takes her daughter-in-law's side. Together, the two women take on the mistress and troublesome neighbors, heading into the mountains to dig bamboo shoots and earn their first pot of gold. But when Liu Xiaohong shows up at their doorstep with a baby bump, and Li Lei, suddenly remorseful, stubbornly refuses to divorce, how will Yang Yun settle this ridiculous love debt?