During a famine in ancient times, widow Wang Lianhua goes up the mountain to gather wild vegetables and unexpectedly travels to a modern film and television city, awakening the ability to travel between two worlds. Drawing on her deeply ingrained survival experience from years of famine, she rises from a lowly background extra to a highly paid special-contract actress. She learns to read, adapts to modern life, and earns industry recognition through her natural acting. Meanwhile, she brings affordable modern supplies and production techniques back to ancient times, leads her entire family in setting up market stalls and making a living, and helps them escape poverty. She also saves the villagers from famine by using scientific methods to control locusts.