A Girl from Hunan

Xiao Xiao is sold while she is still a child. She is given to a family as a bride. The person she is to marry is a boy of two. The girl is charged with raising him. She will look after him until he is old enough to marry. Her family is paid for her in return. Xiao Xiao is expected to follow tradition. She is required to keep to the rules of society to the letter. As she grows, though, she resists. She begins to question what her elders order. By the time she is sixteen she falls in love with a man. He is not the boy she is to marry. The price of that love is heavy. The rules of the village do not forgive such a thing. Na Renhua and Xiaoguang Deng appear in the hundred and ten minute film, a Chinese production Xie Fei and U Lan finished in 1986.