Zhao Gang, a young man from Wayao Village, returns home with 600,000 yuan in capital and sugar-making technology. He leads the entire village in establishing a brown sugar cooperative, which achieves an annual profit of 3 million yuan within two years. Village chief Zhao Guangtian pockets public funds and tries to fob Zhao Gang off with an IOU for his 400,000-yuan dividend. Zhao Gang does not argue. Instead, he dismantles his own equipment overnight and heads to the provincial capital to build a factory, secretly gathering evidence of corruption. Eight months later, he returns to his hometown with his own brand, 'Washanhong,' brings the village chief to court for embezzling collective assets, reforms the cooperative, and puts the four-generation tradition of Wayao brown sugar back on the right track.