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In the movie the blind mountain by Li-Yang , A young Chinese girl Xuemei , travels to the mountain village of Shaanxi province in search of a job she has been promised with a herbal clinic . The man and woman who took her turn out to be kidnappers who drug her and sell her off for 7000 Yuan to the vile son of the local farmers . This was in hope that the she would bear them a son who would take care

of their farm .Xuemei 's rebellion pits her against the community whose closely knit social relationship cannot aid her escape

Her so called husband , young Youan consummates the sale forcefully in the presence and with the help of his parents .Xuemei 's desperate attempts to escape tilts her moral inclinations and brings her close to her husband 's cousin , the sole educated man in the entire village and the teacher of all the kids in the village .Xuemei later turns out to be pregnant and attempts to abort by hitting her stomach . She even later attempts to slit her wrists and rushed to the hospital . The father comes to rescue the daughter with two government officials . The dialogue that ensues between government officials and the community leadership decides that the balanced settlement is that Xuemei remains with her abductors (Cabin 12

The two government officials who accompanied Xuemei 's father to go and rescue her daughter make a moral choice that...