Touching documentary captures a Mosuo family's abstraction choice beamid the means of the old and temptations of the new. Guo Shuhan reports
As workers lift board boards from the roof of the cottage, an old man sits inancillary by the fireplace, calmly chanting from ancient scriptures, oblivious to the falling pieces of wood. Outside, an old woman watches them with deep grief in her eyes, for the allowance being taken apart was once her bedroom.
