In a southern village in the 1980s, the poorest family, the Tangs, take in an abandoned baby girl, Tang Xiaoman, and raise her amid poverty and mockery—until she becomes the village's first college student through sheer hard work. The drama portrays the adoptive parents' love that transcends blood ties, the devotion of her two older brothers, and the simple truth that the grace of raising outweighs the grace of giving birth.