During a famine in ancient times, a poor widow named Wang Lianhua climbs into the hills to dig for wild vegetables and finds herself in a modern film studio backlot. With nothing but her own experience of hardship and an unpolished honesty no drama school could teach, she takes work as an extra playing corpses, and her crying scenes stop a director cold. Moving between the two eras, she trades what she earns on set for grain and oil to carry home.

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Cast

Guo Jing

Wang Lianhua

Xue Binhong

Zhou Pei

Xu Ziyu

Lai Jingfang

Liu Daoyun

Chen Cai

Chen Shaofeng

Chen Jie

Yin Zheyou

Fish Seller

Ge Bing

Money Man

Cao Baoshuo

Chen Hui

Pei Pei

Qian Jinyu

Xu Jingyuan

Qian Xinmiao

Lian Anning

Fan