Mother's and Father's Homes

In the 1990s, rural woman Lin Xiulian defies her mother's arranged marriage and chooses to marry Niu Gen. After the engagement, she faces harsh treatment from her mother-in-law's feudal mindset, Niu Gen's mother-obsessed attitude of making no firm decisions, and the complete erosion of her hopes for this so-called free marriage that is actually a feudal shackle. Therefore, even while pregnant, under the protection of her widowed mother and agricultural technician Zhang Jiankang, she decides to run away with the baby to escape the fate of being bound by an old-style marriage for a lifetime. The story conveys positive values of women fighting against feudal thought, daring to cut losses for a better growth environment for the next generation, and not letting childbirth bind the self.