Getting By for Half a Life

Some people say, "In the marriages of poor people, how much love can there really be? In essence, it is just two people getting by together."

A record of a rural woman’s married life in the 1980s. Families of vastly different backgrounds, and different values, muddle through half a lifetime because of face, family, and children.

These thirty years are thirty years of earth-shaking change in the countryside, and their marriage also drifts and sinks with the tide of the times. Taste the many flavors of life, and watch the joys and sorrows of small people over half a lifetime!