丽娟是一个土生土长的上海姑娘，家里虽然不富贵但是骨子里都有上海人的骄傲，她毕业后不顾母亲反对嫁给了在上海工作的东北小子亚平，在丽娟家的帮助下在上海买房程家。刚结婚的时候亚平对丽娟端茶送水的十分贴心，两人也是恩爱无比。婆婆的到来打破了这些平静，婆婆不仅传统思想严重，并且对还经常教育丽娟，婆媳的矛盾不断升级甚至水火不容。直到亚平的父亲因病住院后，婆媳彻底决裂，即使丽娟为亚平生下一个儿子也没有缓和关系。即使这样丽娟也没有想过离婚，直到有一天丽娟在儿子口中听到妈妈坏后，终于走到了崩溃的边缘，以自己卖房子为由直接向把亚平母子赶出家门，亚平终于忍受不了，在母亲的撺掇下对丽娟动手，最后两人走向了离婚的结局。

Lijuan is a native Shanghai girl. Although her family is not rich, she has the pride of Shanghainese in her bones. The next step is to buy a house in Shanghai for the Cheng family. When they first got married, Yaping was very considerate to Lijuan in serving tea and water, and the two were also extremely affectionate. The arrival of the mother-in-law broke the peace. The mother-in-law was not only serious about traditional thinking, but also often educated Lijuan. After Yaping's father was hospitalized due to illness, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law broke up completely. Even if Lijuan gave birth to a son for Yaping, the relationship did not ease. Even so, Lijuan never thought about divorce until one day when Lijuan heard from her son that her mother was bad, she finally came to the brink of collapse. Unable to bear it, at the instigation of her mother, she did something to Lijuan, and finally the two went to the end of divorce.