The Ninth Widow tells a story of a woman villager Wang Pu-tao (Grape) from an isolated part of Central China who loses her family in early childhood in a flood disaster. She is bought as a servant and widowed at age 14. Wang hides a fugitive man (her father-in-law) in her cellar and cares for him for the next 30 years, through political campaigns, famines, and various man-made disasters

电视剧《第九个寡妇》，根据严歌苓同名畅销小说改编。故事以上世纪二十至四十年代为背景，讲述了中原地区传奇寡妇“王葡萄”及身边的男人们在面对战乱、天灾、人祸时所体现出的屈而不折的民族生命力。王葡萄与孙怀清的父女情，与青梅竹马恋人孙少勇的爱情，与李秀梅、淘米儿寡妇间的姐妹情， 构成了这个传奇寡妇悲欢离合的一生。