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.
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.