Cherries

Set in the village of Aicun Yunnan province pic begins in the early 80s with poor lame farmer Ge Wang Tuo Guoquan pressured by his family to marry the mentally and emotionally stunted Cherry Miao Pu Ge weds the unkempt but harmless woman who spends most of her time chasing children and offering them the fruit that is her namesake Once married the shamelessly sexual and embarrassingly naive Cherry shows an insatiable desire to have her own child Fate intervenes in the second act when Cherry finds an abandoned baby girl in the woods Though the sprig named Scarlet comes complete with a handful of bank notes Ge panics thinking he cant afford to raise a child and reacts in callous fashion Final section puts a prepubescent Scarlet Long Li centerstage as she deals with the stigma of having a mentally handicapped mother whose affection is both infinite and frequently inappropriate