High school girl Chunying (played by Guo Shuyao) is a Taiwanese girl who grew up in a poor single-parent family. She left her hometown alone and went to Taipei to study at Jingmei Girls' Middle School. At school, she joined the tug-of-war team, which had no technical content, because the team members were all from single-parent or economically poor families. They did not have the bad habits of the dandy boys, and they were all full of positive energy. The students in the tug-of-war team knew that there was no way out behind them, and they had to work hard on their own, so they made extraordinary efforts in both study and sports. In the women's high school competition, this group of girls aged sixteen or seventeen, with their cocooned hands, pulled up the long hemp rope, seemingly challenging their future destiny. Sports coach Mr. Guo (played by Zhuang Kaixun) and enthusiastic teacher Wu (played by Yang Qianpei) saw the children's tomorrow from them...