Kidnapped and sold as a wife to an impoverished highway worker in the Tibetan wilderness, Qiaoqiao, alone and helpless, learns to accept her fate and quickly comes of age both emotionally and physically. After a horrifying event involving the worker and his brother, Qiaoqiao escapes and finds solace on a remote military post where she is befriended by the base's station master. However their happiness is short-lived when he learns of her terrible secret. "I hope that the audience of this movie will come to a better understanding of the realities in today's China, and of ordinary Chinese people's desire to live a better life, and the price some of them must pay." Chen Jie, Director