Summer in the Northeast countryside is muggy and long—and the days when her husband is away are even longer. Xie Xiuyun is thirty, her body still soft, but her eyes have already learned to size up the men around her. A volunteer teacher, the village chief's mentally disabled son, her father-in-law, a fish farmer, a lame man... men of every station in the village walk into her life one after another. What begins as passive transactions born of loneliness gradually turns into active indulgence. The blue clothes stay on her body, but beneath her skirt she has long been filled by different hands and desires. The truest face of rural romance was never petty household gossip—it is a woman who, caught in the tangle of desire and self-interest, step by step turns herself into what the villagers call a "loose woman." The first episode is only the beginning; the road of degradation is still long.