A little girl Tingting raised 8 baby silkworms, but she didn't have mulberry leaves to feed them, so she asked her neighbour Grandpa Jin for help. Grandpa Jin, as well as Coer, a teenage boy with intellectual disability who also lived in the neighbourhood, finally found a mulberry tree in the bushes by the river. However when they took Tingting to the riverbank to pick the mulberry leaves, the trees had been levelled by a bulldozer. Fortunately they found a buried sapling in the mud. They brought it back and planted it in the yard. What they didn't expect was that the arrival of this small mulberry tree shattered the tranquility of the neighbourhood...

小姑娘婷婷养了8条蚕宝宝，因为缺少桑叶，便向靳爷爷求助。靳爷爷以及小区的大男孩坐坐，终于在河边的灌木丛中找到了桑树。当他们带着婷婷再次来采摘桑叶时，却发现这里已被推土机夷为平地。他们在泥土中捡回一棵被掩埋的桑树苗，种在了小区的院子里。然而，这棵小桑树的到来，却打破了小区的平静......这是一本关于人与自然和生命关怀的书，故事围绕爱和成长以及人与大自然的关系展开。通过阅读本书，小读者们可以感知人与自然和谐相处的重要性，感受爱赋予生命的力量。