This book follows the life of Ms. Hui Zhi Song, a Chinese girl born into wealth and privilege, only to see her life turned upside down during Mao's Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards persecuted her, Her mother exploited her. Bereft of love and full of grief, the thirty-four-year-old slipped out of communist China -crossing the wall- to start a new life in a promised land. Then her troubles began on this side of the wall. Against a background of sadness and loneliness, Hui Zhi tells a story of relentless determination and stubborn hope to reach a good life in North America.