During the Great Leap Forward in the last century, although people lived in poverty, they jointly managed the most simple life with the support of faith and human feelings. Linghe Power Plant has just welcomed the technical backbone Lu Zhenhai (played by Guo Xiaodong). With his solid professional and technical skills, he has won the trust of factory leaders and old workers, and also won the hearts of many girls including the factory flower Yang Yuhuan (played by Che Yongli). However, Master Lu only has feelings for one person, that is, Qiao Fangcao (played by Wu Yue), a village girl living in the workers' compound. Fangcao got pregnant before marriage and went to her sister Fangye (played by Liu Lili). In that conservative era, it really caused a lot of problems for her sister's family, and the father of the child was Lu Zhenhai. In addition, in the small courtyard, the symphony of pots and pans has never stopped: Jiang Hanzhi, a spinster who is determined to marry Lu Zhenhai, Luo Dache who gave birth to six girls and still wants a son, Zhang Jinsong who caused a storm by painting artistic human bodies, and so on. The Chinese people in this special era savor the bitterness, sweetness, sourness and spiciness of life with their simple emotions...