Sent to the countryside to collect happy folk songs for the Communist Party, a Chinese soldier stays with a peasant family and learns all their songs are about hardship and suffering like their lives. He meets a 14-year-old girl, who has been sold off for marriage, and she is spellbound by his talk of the freedom women have under communism.

China | 1984 | Drama, History, Music | 1h 29m | NR
Director: Kaige Chen
Stars: Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu
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