The story begins when Shen Zhimo knocks on the door of the old workshop. Commissioned by the county cultural center, he comes to invite Zhou Shouzhuo to apply for the provincial intangible cultural heritage representative inheritor, but is flatly refused by Zhou Shouzhuo. Zhou Shouzhuo believes that a plaque cannot save the craft, and since his son won't learn it and the villagers won't learn it, once he dies and the workshop is dismantled, nothing will be left. Shen Zhimo does not leave; he stays, learning from beating the pulp, watching the heat, to making paper, starting by beating pulp for three months before discussing anything else. While learning, Shen Zhimo uses his phone to shoot videos, recording the pulp pool, bamboo curtain, paper making, and sun drying. The videos go from over four hundred views to two thousand eight, twelve thousand, and finally one hundred thousand. Fang Nianhe from the city calligraphy association comes following the videos.