In a year of severe drought, Xu Yihe is driven out by her husband's family and takes her young son to seek refuge with her natal family. By a twist of fate, a silver earring allows her to travel to modern times and grants her a portable storage space. Collecting scrap, selling seafood, and growing grain to exchange for money, she carves out a way of survival for her whole family in a troubled world. However, as the drought intensifies and the chaos of war breaks out everywhere, Xu Yihe embarks on the path of flight with her family, striving to live through death.