Director Yang of agricultural machinery factory is a leader who only cares about production and doesn't care about people's lives. His wife, Aunt Yang, is the head of the factory service team. Yang Ping is their charming daughter, and her family environment has formed the habit of neglecting housework. Her boyfriend Chen Fang is a smart and capable young worker. However, the heavy burden of housework affected his work and amateur creation, and he had many contradictions with Yang Ping, even his love almost fell through. Director Yang is very concerned about the production and scientific research of the factory. Zhu Zhifeng, the technical backbone of the machinery factory, was busy with scientific research and didn't wear clothes for several days. Zhu Zhifeng's lover, Wu Sulan, is a doctor who is committed to the "four modernizations". She often goes to the countryside and finds that Zhu Zhifeng has no clothes to wear, so she is in a very awkward position. She deeply feels that this will affect scientific research. Aunt Yang saw that the burden of housework was so heavy, and proposed to make a washing machine to solve everyone's difficulties, which was rejected by Director Yang. Aunt Yang came up with a good idea, that is, let Director Yang taste the hardships of heavy housework and educate himself with personal experience. At the same time, Aunt Yang encouraged young workers to make washing machines by themselves. In the process of interviewing the seedling puller, the female reporter found that this agricultural machinery factory is also building washing machines. She thought it was a new thing and immediately took the initiative to conduct an in-depth investigation. Director Yang thinks it is his duty to master the development progress of the seedling puller. Unexpectedly, the manufacture of washing machines has solved some troubles in life for the masses, and it is also to do more logistics work for the soldiers on the new Long March to ensure the smooth progress of the four modernizations. Under the question of the female reporter, Director Yang, who doesn't care about the sufferings of the masses, is very embarrassed. However, under the realistic education, he finally understood that a good leader is a cadre who can grasp both production and life.