The film is again made by the original creative team of Drifting with the Wind, which was selected for the Busan International Film Festival and won Best Foreign Language Film at a film festival in Rome. Following Drifting with the Wind, director Danzhen Wangjia's debut, it is another film about Tibetan women. With a distinctive humanistic outlook and a female perspective, and drawing on the real lives of Tibetan people, the film tells the world a true story of Tibetan people beyond what they might imagine.
After her husband's death, Wangmu becomes a widow burdened with the debts he left behind. She has to face the gossip of the villagers and also settle her husband's accounts. According to Tibetan tradition, debts not repaid in this life must be repaid in the next. Every cent of the debt must be repaid, but those who owed her husband money ignore her, claiming that a debt dies with the debtor. To clear the karmic obstacles on her husband's path to rebirth, Wangmu has no choice but to chase the debtors to settle the accounts, with little success: she recovers very little money. Without her husband, Wangmu is coveted by a group of men, and the pressures of life bear down on her. These pressures change her from a young wife into an active, capable, independent woman. With little hope of repaying the debts, Nyima Wangmu in her despair pins her hopes on a merchant who owes her husband a large sum. As life and debt both pass through cycles of rebirth, the fates of the women heading two families change completely.
Genre:
Family, Women, DramaEstimated Running Time:
101 minDirector:
Danzhen WangjiaScreenwriter:
Dengba Daji | Du ZiyueProducer:
Xie Li | Su MingqingProduction Company:
Sichuan Luoba Kangzhu Film and Culture Media Co., Ltd.Executive Producer:
Lu Wei | Du ZiyueProduction Company:
Sichuan Luoba Kangzhu Film and Culture Media Co., Ltd. | Emei Film GroupLead Actor:
Zhuojie ZerenLead Actress:
Wang ZhuocuoDanzhen Wangjia: the first Tibetan director to join the core creative team of a major CCTV documentary series. He directed The Little Lama's Spring Festival and the major CCTV documentary series Deep in Shambhala, Harvest China and I Live at the Head of the River. His debut feature, Drifting with the Wind, has won a number of awards at festivals in China and abroad.
Zhuojie Zeren: actor, graduated in musical theatre performance from the Beijing Contemporary Music Academy. He has starred in more than ten films, including Stone Town Above the Clouds, The Believer and Jinzhu Mami, and in TV series including Rattan and Ping Pong Life. In 2018, he was named a Youth Ambassador of the WeLink International Film Festival at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Wang Zhuocuo: for the film Meiduo and the Moonlight, she was shortlisted for Most Media-Attention Supporting Actress in the Media Focus section of the Shanghai International Film Festival. She is known as "China's Green Baby" and is the image ambassador of Qinghai Internet Radio and Television.
Dengba Daji: adapted the screenplay of Drifting with the Wind, which received a Golden Rooster Awards nomination for Best Screenplay. Du Ziyue: director and screenwriter. Works for CCTV Movie Channel include Welcome to Wild Boar Village, Designated Driver Xiangzi and the Policewoman series; theatrical films include The Prop Master and Girl Fuling; also the films Drifting with the Wind and Wangmu's Summer.
Xie Li: the major CCTV documentary series Deep in Shambhala and I Live at the Head of the River; the films Drifting with the Wind and Wangmu's Summer. Su Mingqing: the films Drifting with the Wind, Wangmu's Summer, Detective Yao Jiesi and The Condemned; the web series The Oriole.
Sichuan Luoba Kangzhu Film and Culture Media Co., Ltd.: a content company dedicated to presenting quality Tibetan culture. The company focuses on building a professional film and television production chain, covering project development, production and major CCTV documentary series. It produced the theatrical films Drifting with the Wind and Wangmu's Summer, took part in producing the major CCTV documentary series Harvest China and I Live at the Head of the River, and produced the first major 4K documentary series, Deep in Shambhala.
Lu Wei: screenwriter and director, known for Farewell My Concubine, To Live, Tuya's Marriage and White Deer Plain. Du Ziyue: director and screenwriter. Films include Welcome to Wild Boar Village, Designated Driver Xiangzi and the Policewoman series; theatrical films include The Prop Master and Girl Fuling; also the films Drifting with the Wind and Wangmu's Summer.
After her husband's death, so that he will not carry his debts into the next life, Wangmu takes on a huge debt. Determined to repay it, she has to overcome every obstacle, and with her perseverance and sincerity she tries to change traditional society's prejudice and discrimination against women.