In 1920s China, nineteen-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges...

In a mountain hamlet in eastern China, a poor woman faces trial after trial. Sold into marriage as a child, she is left a young widow and enslaved...

A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are...

A kind-hearted village girl attempts to raise a child whose father was taken as a political prisoner.

When the villagers in Qingshuilian village along the Xiaoli River in northern Shaanxi have to evacuate to intruding forces of Hu Zongnan, only a...