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.

• Good Machine Films
• Li Xiaolu
• Lopsang
• Zheng Qian
• Lü Yue
• Gao Jie
• Li Zhizhi
• Lü Zhong
• Qiao Qian