Journalist Ye Pan is looking for the truth behind a puzzling double fall. During her investigation, she reports nurse Li Yue and mother You Xi as suspects, which triggers public outcry and the situation gradually gets out of control.

The story chronicles four decades in the lives of a family deeply rooted in the soil of Northeast China. Through times of prosperity and hardship, they navigate cycles of love and hatred, fortune and misfortune. Though buffeted by the twists of fate, they never relinquish their steadfast guardianship of one another and the profound commitment to this ancestral land that sustains them.