1978 to 2009, which is a dramatic change in China stirring three decades. The aunt of a unitary but not just their family life, but the Chinese people in the past three decades, through a tenacious storm magnificent, soul-stirring struggle the road.
In 1978. Chongqing. The unitary aunt heavily pregnant with large and small, five children kneeling at the factory gate to seek justice, she was expelled by the factory due to drunken husband Yaoshu. Unitary aunt finally factory manager agreed to the request of their oldest son grew up access Yaoshu Ban, but also the birth of the factory door in the storm, and gave birth to twins.
Yao and Yao Shu aunt would have five children, the first four children are named with the "prosperity" in addition to her second child Hayashi, boss Lin Fan the youngest LINKCHAMP and fourth Linsheng are boys, Five forest Jing is a silent and stubborn little girl. Too many children, the family is already struggling to survive, and now lost their home in the biggest economic pillars - Yao Shu, because of alcoholism, he has lost the ability to work.
Unitary aunt must stand up and picking up the house, just gave birth to the twins could not afford, must be given away, but on his way to give as gifts, the twins lost a unitary aunt suffer from great sadness that hold the rest of the back home, she is the youngest of the Lin family.
The unitary aunt with five children, labor, and make their own bean paste to the streets to sell, but she import raw materials have no money, unable to escape the harassment of supply and marketing cooperatives old Liu, but also by Aunt Wu's attacks and insults on the street selling the same bean paste forest construction of the educated youth husband's brother to jump the queue back with his fist to maintain the dignity of the unitary Aunt to move to more rumors. The rumor says the unitary Aunt Pan, old Liu is Ximen Qing, Yao Shu film Dalang forest construction is a unitary aunt seduce Wu. Yaoshu several alcohol not hearts bored conflict with the building forest became the joke of the street. Forest construction angry smashed the glass of all people spreading rumors on the street, and go to the old Liu accounts, but the unitary aunt stopped the construction of a stick of forest, old Liu is indeed on the Lin family is gracious. Forest construction came out from the detention center, not go back to the Lin family, but to go into exile. Yao aunt because of these rumors, at home and forged an enemy, is the Five Lin Jing. Lin Jing hate on the unitary aunt, she hated the mother to give this reputation of their brothers and sisters. ...
Unitary aunt she was a woman of a variety of survival skills, tenacious six children are bringing up. Boss Lin Fan aged 18, then Yaoshu classes into the factory, however, the forest fan but if one's only like to learn, want the university entrance exam, the family can not allow the fan forcing forest burned the university admission notice. The second Hayashi is a vain girl, and even stealing the new clothes of the students, while being the brother of the entanglement of students. Youngest Lim Chang and fourth Linsheng Ping, the best of relations, is the one-on-one engraved restless the Amoy kid, all kinds of nonsense full of tricks. Hayashi was entangled by the rogue, moved to the third fourth of the big Corinthians fan to save the market, Lin Fan was a missed, the person killed .......