Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

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Audience Score
74
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
NR 1 hr 39 minDrama
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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.