简素华（王丹凤 饰）和实习医生沈浩如（李纬 饰）是一对恋人，沈希望早日与小简结婚，留在大城市生活。而简素华却甘愿服从组织分配，支援祖国边疆建设。来到边疆的第一天晚上，她在简朴的宿舍里写下了走向新生活的日记。然而理想与现实是有差距的，工地医务站站长莫家彬（傅伯棠 饰）和护士顾惠英（蒋天流 饰）只顾恋爱而忽视了工作，工人们意见很大，而简素华的到来又令莫家彬对其大献殷勤，引起了顾惠英的误会。小简忍着内心的痛苦与不快，积极努力的工作，她的工作热情赢得了广大工人的称赞，也引起工区主任高昌平（汤化达 饰）的好感。沈浩如突然来到工地，要接简素华回上海结婚，其结果俩人不欢而散。规模宏大的工厂落成后，高昌平将率领队伍奔赴新的建设工地，临行前，他向简素华发出了邀请......

After graduating from a Shanghai nursing school, Jian Shuhua decides to work at a construction workers’ clinic in a remote area, despite the objections of her fiancé Shen Aoru. When she arrives at her new workstation, she finds that one of the clinic directors, Mo Jiabing, pays more attention to his love affair with nurse Gu Huiying than to his work. In addition, Gu’s jealousy is aroused by the arrival of the new nurse. Jian, then, the epitome of the selfless worker, has to deal with a faraway and egotistic fiancé, a selfish and lecherous boss, an unfriendly colleague, as well as the hardships of a remote and barren workstation. How can she succeed?

Сухуа, выпускница Шанхайской школы сестринского дела, отправляется волонтёром в пограничные районы Северо-Восточного Китая. Как следствие, вскоре девушка рвёт отношения с молодым человеком, оставшимся в Шанхае.

Después de estudiar enfermería, una chica de Shanghai se separa de su novio y se va de voluntaria a una zona fronteriza del nordeste de China.