
Synopsis
In the mountains of Central China lives an ethnic minority, the Qiang. They have maintained their rural way of life and live close to nature. In 2008 they were hit by a deadly earthquake and their population dropped to 300,000. This documentary explores a spring, a summer and an autumn with four of these people.
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