Famine in the 70s: Starting with Taking Care of the Educated Youth Sister-in-Law

Famine in the 70s: Starting with Taking Care of the Educated Youth Sister-in-Law Plot:

In a northern Anhui village engulfed by famine in 1970, Lin Xiu, a widow who just buried her husband who died in a construction site accident, was entrusted by her mother-in-law to take care of Su Xiaotang—her sister-in-law, a pregnant educated youth who had been criticized as a 'capitalist tail' at the youth camp. Looking at the half ladle of cornmeal left in the grain jar and Xiaotang, huddled outside the threshold with bruised legs and empty eyes (once a city girl who pouted even when carrying water), Lin Xiu still took her in. Later, she dodged the production team leader's inspections, quarreled with gossipy aunts, and secretly dug wild vegetables to fill their stomachs—but the biggest surprise came when she found a letter Xiaotang hid: the 'fallen' educated youth boyfriend was actually alive...