"The film is adapted from two novellas "Red Sorghum" and "Sorghum Wine" published by Mo Yan in 1986. Because of a mule, the parents of "my grandma" Jiu'er (played by Gong Li) want her to marry a 50-year-old leper who owns a winery. When Jiuer was getting married in a sedan chair, he was intercepted by a robber on the way. in..."