It is an action-thriller, which revolves around an ordinary man who takes up his girlfriend's fight for the justice against unscrupulous, depraved man who had created a Multi Million Dollar business by deceiving ambitious Medical students and their parents.

家住山溝溝里的九香（宋春麗 飾）是一個大字不識的老婆婆，她爹給她起了個中藥名，從沒上過學(xué)的老婆婆看著自己19歲時候拍的照片，思緒不覺回到了從前。那是她多么的漂亮，就像山坡上盛開的小花?？墒撬拿\多么凄涼，就像那難以下咽的黃連。暴雪壓塌了她家的房子，壓死她的丈夫。五個兒女哇哇大哭，苦命的女人獨立擔(dān)起養(yǎng)活孩子的重任。在漫長艱苦的旅途，丈夫生前好友老關(guān)開始幫著娘兒幾個操持家務(wù)。患難相助，情格外真。九香似乎開始動心，可是風(fēng)言風(fēng)語和孩子們不懂事的言辭讓她止步。