In the 1960 famine year, bad customs were prevalent in Wangjia Village, Kaoshan Commune. Su Chunhe, who had only given birth to a daughter five years after marriage, was insisted by her mother-in-law Zhang Guixiang to execute the cruel custom of beating for good fortune on the grounds of cutting off the incense, trying to use bamboo strips to beat her to force her to give birth to a son. Her soft-hearted and cowardly husband Wang Tiezhu, coerced by filial piety and village rules, ignored his wife's physically and mentally damaged pleas and chose to compromise and concede. Facing the cold-shouldered pressure of the whole village, moral kidnapping, and the harsh persecution of her in-laws, Su Chunhe, completely heartbroken, stopped enduring, publicly and hard-core refuted the absurd old customs, and resolutely rebelled against her unfair fate.