Under the Hawthorne Tree

During the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China, Jing -a college student from town- is sent to a remote mountain village for "reeducation". Jing is the personification of innocence. But her father has been put in jail for being a 'counter-revolutionary' and so now Jing's mother must support her three children on her own. Jing knows that not only her own future but that of her family now depends on how the authorities judge her efforts to be "reeducated". Jing's careful and inconspicuous behavior comes to an end when she falls in love with Sun, the engaging son of a high ranking officer...