当周金的姐姐问起她最早的记忆时，周金怒视着镜头。这些记忆一点也不愉快。周金出生于上世纪90年代，中国实行独生子女政策。在那时，直到怀孕的最后一个月，未出生的女孩被流掉是很正常的，因为男孩更受欢迎，有些已出生的孩子则被无情地扔在垃圾堆或树林里。周金就在街上的一个箱子里活了一个星期。

Jin scowls into the camera when her sister – the filmmaker – asks about her earliest memories. No wonder: these memories are anything but pleasant. Jin was born in the 1990s, during China’s one-child policy. It was normal then for unborn girls to be aborted – right up to the last month of a pregnancy, because boys were preferred. Living babies were also ruthlessly dumped in the garbage, or in the woods. Jin survived for a week in a box on the streets.

한 자녀 정책이 시행되던 시절, 아들을 원한 부모는 진을 낙태할 생각까지 한다. 우여곡절 끝에 태어난 진은 부모를 용납하기가 어렵다. 진의 언니 리는 배 속 아이가 남편이 바라는 아들일지, 낙태해야 할지도 모르는 딸일지 궁금하다.