Two spirited daughters from China’s last remaining matriarchal ethnic minority are thrust into the worldwide economic downturn when they lose the only jobs they’ve ever known. Left with few options, Jua Ma and La Tsuo leave Beijing for home, a remote village in the foothills of the Himalayas. But home is no longer what it was, as growing exposure to the modern world irreparably changes the provocative traditions the Mosuo have built around their belief that marriage is an attack on the family. This is a rare window into what is at once a tale of the human cost of the global financial crisis and a timely snapshot of a minority culture whose singular customs are threatened by the very forces that are lifting its people out of poverty.