China, the 1990s. In villages where female babies are drowned, there are few young women to marry th...
China, the 1990s. In villages where female babies are drowned, there are few young women to marry the men and bear more son. Families buy wives - girls lured from the city. Bai finishes college and accepts a job in a remote mountain village harvesting herbs. It's a ruse: she's sold to a peasant family. She's indignant; the parents hold her so the son can rape her. She tries to run away; she's beaten. Other women kidnapped a few year before, now with children, tell her to comply. She continues to try to escape. She writes to her father, smuggling letter to the mailman. She obtain a bit of money. The village is without pity, except for the teacher. Can he help her? Anger mounts.
