| Lu Liping | |
| Quanxin Pu | |
| Li Xuejian | |
| Guo Baochang | |
| Zhong Ping | |
| Chu Quanzhong | |
| Song Xiaoying | |
| Zhang Hong | |
| Chen Xiaoman |
In 1950s China, just after Chen Shujuan and and her librarian husband, Lin Shaolong, have their first child, Shaolong is unjustly forced into a labor camp as a result of Mao's purges. Shaolong dies during his imprisonment, and Shujuan marries Li Guodong . But the family faces dire poverty under the Communist regime, and the malnourished Guodong dies. Shujuan and her now adolescent son, Tietou, must then stick together to survive.
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