1975年的成都，知青文秀报名来到四川边远地区工作，成为场部的一个洗奶工，后被安排跟着老金学习牧马。老金对这个美丽清纯的小姑娘十分疼爱，甚至在枣园上为她挖浴池打水洗澡，文秀也渐渐的依赖老金。场部约定半年后给文秀接会城里，时间到了却一直没有消息，同事听说其他知青回城后，文秀十分焦虑变得性格暴躁起来。

文秀渴望回到城里的生活，便在供销社员的哄骗之下献上自己，老金知道她是被玩弄但是有口难言。文秀一时间成为场部男人的玩物，只要和她说有办法回城便可以随意玩弄，最后文秀非但没有得到回城的机会，还被搞大了肚子，这时却没人出来认。

文秀在医院才知道，为了回到城里甚至可以自断手指假装工伤，但是文秀对自己下不了手，最后老金开枪把文秀杀死在天浴里，自己也饮弹自杀。

In Chengdu in 1975, Wenxiu, an educated youth, signed up to work in a remote area of Sichuan and became a milkman in the field department, and was arranged to study with Lao Jin Herding horses. Lao Jin loved this beautiful and pure little girl very much, and even dug a bath for her to take a bath in the jujube orchard, and Wenxiu gradually became dependent on Lao Jin. The field department agreed to meet Wenxiu in the city in half a year, but there was no news when the time came. When colleagues heard that other educated youths had returned to the city, Wenxiu became very anxious and became irritable

Wenxiu longed to return to the life in the city, so she was coaxed by the supply and marketing staff to offer herself. Lao Jin knew that she was being played with But it's hard to say. Wenxiu became the plaything of the men in the field for a while, as long as she told her that there was a way to return to the city, she could play with her at will. In the end, Wenxiu not only did not get the chance to return to the city, but was also pregnant, but no one came out to recognize her.

Wenxiu only found out in the hospital that in order to return to the city, she could even cut off her own finger and pretend to be a work-related injury, but Wenxiu couldn't do anything to herself, In the end, Lao Jin shot and killed Wenxiu in the sky bath, and committed suicide by drinking a bullet himself.