The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake killed Ye Hongmei's eight-year-old daughter, one of more than 6,000 children who were killed or maimed when the quake tore through Sichuan province. Under China's one-child policy, that single loss left thousands of families with no children at all, and the film follows Ye as she tries to conceive again years later, at an age and under circumstances that make pregnancy uncertain. Al Jazeera's camera stays close to her daily life and the medical appointments that punctuate it, tracking the physical and emotional toll of trying to rebuild a family the state's own policy had made singular in the first place. Other bereaved parents appear alongside her, their grief inflected by the same demographic math: one child, then none. The film treats Ye's story as representative rather than exceptional, using her attempt at a second pregnancy to show what an earthquake does to a population when its family planning laws leave no backup.