Retired accountant Wang Xiaolin is humiliated by her son’s family over a mistaken grab of a 39.9-yuan Mid-Autumn red envelope. She flips the table, cuts off their support and leaves home. She returns to work as Finance Director. Faced with her son and daughter-in-law’s freeloading and emotional blackmail, she fights back firmly. In the end, she donates her five-million-yuan demolition compensation. Now worlds apart from her son, who becomes a security guard, she lives her later years with independence and dignity.
