| Genre | documentary film |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 89 min |
| Country | Germany, Norway, People's Republic of China, United States |
The film depicts the personal lives of two Millennial Chinese women who study Nüshu, a script used exclusively by women in Jiangyong County, Hunan province, to communicate and commiserate over Chinese patriarchy. The first, Xin Hu, is a tour guide at the Nüshu Museum who divorced an abusive husband. She forms a bond with He Yanxin, an elderly Nüshu master. The second, Simu Wu, a singer who lives in Shanghai, is the youngest government-designated "inheritor" of the language. She is engaged to a man from a rural family but later leaves him after he pressures her to give up her studies to take on a job and raise children. Both women encounter entrepreneurs and government authorities seeking to promote a sanitized version of the language and to commercialize it to brand products including "high-end potatoes".