After three years of severe drought, the villagers of Qingliu Village are trapped in Death Valley, on the brink of despair. The tears of Sui Sui, an orphan girl, activate the broken porcelain bowl left behind by her mother, unexpectedly granting her the ability to travel between ancient and modern times. Despite repeatedly enduring high fevers and weakness after each journey, she brings back food, iron tools, vegetable seeds, and all kinds of supplies from the modern world. Leading the entire village out of the death valley and into a network of caves where they can settle down, she fights famine, wild beasts, and displaced refugees. With one seemingly ordinary broken bowl, she gives the entire village a chance to survive when all hope seems lost.