Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
Li Xiaolu
Lopsang
Zheng Qian
Lü Yue
Gao Jie
Li Zhizhi
Lü Zhong
Qiao Qian
Jiang Cheng
Yang Xiaoyu
Gu Xuejun
Huri
Li Zhizheng
Kun Zhang
Shijin Li
Dong Jia
Qiang Gao
Xuelan Cao
Wenyuan Qin
Xiaoying Tan
Wenqi Hu
Yayu Li
Min Du
Jiong Cao
Dashui Jia
Chen Yu
Wang Luoyong
Xiaolin Yu
Wang Yu