Xiao Cai Feng plot
"A tailor-made love story."
China, 1970s. Luo and Ma, sons of intellectuals, are sent to a re-education camp in a remote mountain village during the Cultural Revolution. There they meet an old tailor and his beautiful granddaughter. Luo falls in love with the Little Tailor. She tells them that another young man is hiding under his bed a suitcase full of banned books by foreign authors. Luo and Ma steal the suitcase. In the evening they tell the stories they have read to the illiterate villagers. In order not to arouse suspicion, they douse each story with a revolutionary sauce. The Little Tailor is particularly impressed by Balzac's work. Slowly she realizes how important it is to be free: free to live, to think, to dream, to love.