Retired teacher Shen Yulan, sixty years old, is forced to divorce by her husband Zhao Guodong after forty years of marriage. She finds he has secretly transferred shared property and given her mother’s heirlooms to Sun Qiaoyun. With help from her student, lawyer Zhang Qiming, she fights back legally. She returns to teaching, inspires other women, and at sixty-eight finds companionship with retired professor Song Jianhua.
