A woman swept out of the house by her husband's family, yet still carrying five sallow and scrawny children? Coinciding with a barren year of severe drought, times are tough, food and clothing are lacking, and she also has to face right and wrong among neighbors as well as the deliberate difficulties and scheming of others. But she is not willing to submit to a bumpy destiny. Relying on extraordinary courage and the resilience of enduring hardship, she opens mountains to channel water, reclaims wasteland, and figures out ways to run a livelihood. In the harsh countryside, she struggles to maneuver, exhausts all her effort to protect a group of children, and single-mindedly seeks a secure and steady earthly life for her family.