Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a wife by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope of escape because of the villagers apathy and selfishness.

In Guicheng, a small town in the northwest, Dagui and Yiping were good friends who grew up together. They used to pursue the childhood sweetheart Chunlan together.