With the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, now under construction, 1.13 million people along the Yangtze River will have been dislocated. The majority of them are farmers. Bingai features one woman farmer who refuses to move away from her village. The audience will follow her seven-year struggle with officials who pressure her to relocate, while a strong devotion to her land compels her to remain in the place she calls home. “I am not making this documentary to promote environmental causes or to investigate human rights issues. My characters must be put in a larger picture, in the context of a long history as lengthy as the Yangtse River. Their lives are indeed twisted by circumstances often beyond their control and strongly affected by the hands of authorities. Nevertheless they uphold a sense of pride, a pride for values which will never be swept away by the times - love for the family, compassion for the weak, true friendship, and traditional morals. I believe it is such pride that enables these women to bravely take their steps under the burden of China′s past destiny, which reflects humankind′s loss in its continuous history of progress.” - FENG Yan