Qiaoqiao’s daughter suffers from brittle bone disease, a rare illness  impossible to cure and will make her a "porcelain doll" her entire life. Qiaoqiao sacrifices her own career to take care of her daughter, leaving her husband working alone in the factory in the city. As a migrant worker from a low social class, she finds herself stuck with trivial matters, and her life is going further away from what she has imagined.

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CLAP YOUR HANDS takes time to build but the verisimilitude of details of family and country life accretes to a powerful portrait of a working-class woman’s journey. It is a story that might resonate with many people. The unexpected events often interrupt our plans and get in the way of our ambitious goals, and the struggles to make a living beat the dreams of youth. Using parallel storytelling, the film shows how Qiaoqiao has changed in a decade.