Content: It happens in a small yard of a remote alley in a city of West China in the 1980s. Qiao Xuemei, a 19-year-old girl, has just been enrolled in a key university in Beijing when her mother died in a car accident. She has to give up the opportunity for university education since she is expected to support the family. After her paralyzed father passed away and her younger sisters and brothers have established themselves, she gets married with a worker Mr. Xu who has loved her silently. With persistent efforts, she gets the college diploma and runs a nursing house for the old people to help laid-off workers to find a new job.<
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