Five Girls and a Rope (Wu ge nu zi he yi gen sheng zi)

This is a film about five young women who grow up together in a rural village in feudal China. Women at the time were considered ' while men were the masters. Mingtao is the eldest, forced into a marriage against her will. Aigue lives with her 70-year-old grandmother. Hexiang helps her sister-in-law elope with a secret lover. Guijuan's sister is allowed to die in childbirth, in case the baby might be a boy. Jinmei has an aunt who goes mad because she is unable to bear a male child. A local legend tells that virgins, on death, wil go straight to the 'heavenly garden.' So the five decide to commit suicide to avoid their fate.