In 1986, Lin Guizhi won a second-floor new apartment in a unit allocation, but it was swapped by her parents-in-law for a dilapidated eastern courtyard. She fished a box of stolen goods out of an old well in the courtyard, which led to a fifteen-year-old cold case. Facing her parents-in-law's overstepping calculations, Lin Guizhi held her ground, cooperated with the police to capture the real culprit, chose to stay in the eastern courtyard on her own terms, and guarded her own life and dignity, living out her own light against the wind.