Mang Shan plot
The early 90s of the last century. Bai Xuemei, a young university student, has traveled with her employer to a remote part of northern China to buy medicinal herbs. After an arduous journey, they arrive in a mountain village, but when Bai Xuemei wakes up the next day, she realizes that she was lured by a trafficker, who sold her to one of the local farmers. She does not resign herself to her fate and repeatedly tries to escape, only to be taken back, beaten and raped. When she finally manages to contact her own family, another tragedy begins.