Cheng Jiang

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

China's first women's road movie tells the different life experiences and emotional stories of three urban women of different ages and social backgrounds from a female perspective.