Meticulous in every way: the non-professional actors with incredible skills, the beautiful camerawork, the timing and dosing of the tragic storyline about a fourteen-year-old Chinese girl from the countryside. A grown-up feature film debut by a major talent. In the village where she was born in the province of Hunan, Huang Ji filmed this quietly disturbing, sober drama about 14-year-old Honggui, who is forced to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside. The girl is not wanted. Nor was she wanted by her parents, who apparently intended to farm her out to family for two years so they could work in the city. In the meantime, seven years have passed. When she tries to make contact, her real mother is too busy to take her call.

14歲的留守女孩紅貴每天將衛生紙放在內褲上等待流血，然而月經一直沒來。紅貴給母親電話想告訴她什麼，卻被母親忽視了——

與此同時，不管是好友白玉、師兄阿九，還是已經同住了7年的姨娘、姨爹，也慢慢顯露出了他們真正的樣子。流血將會讓紅貴這14歲少女的心，最後孵化成一隻具有生命的溫暖小雞，還是徹底石化成一塊硬梆梆的石頭呢？