Five Girls and a Rope
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.
Cast
Jing Ai
Hejiang
Chang Shih
Sibao
Ying Chang
Shaman
Yuan-Qi Lu
Aiyue
Hsiu-ling Wang
Guijuan
Wang Yu-wen
Wu Pei-yu
Jinmei
Yang Chieh-mei
Mingtao
Storyline
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.
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