YEUNG KUO HAI has to help his mother LAI HAN to clean the pig farm every morning. This causes him to be late for class. Due to being often scolded by teachers together with his poor family background, he is expelled by most of his classmates.

LAI HAN's father is originally a big landlord and she lives leisurely since birth. After liberation, she is arranged to work in a pig farm near the countryside of Guangdong. As she cannot tolerate the hard life, she keeps on recalling her past luxurious lifestyle.

LAI HAN often persuades her husband SHU KEN to apply to move to Hong Kong. She even wants to corrupt the officials so that they could have the chance to move to Hong Kong but is finally in vain.

SHU KEN's point of view on this is very different from HAN and he concurs to work obediently in China.… ...