Drummer from the Hus Yan Mountains

A female orphan falls in love with an army platoon leader fighting Kazakh bandits but she is puzzled when he joins the bandits.

The tragic romance of Prince Kaisal and Mariyam from Uigur folklore.

Maimat, a young roast lamb seller, pretends to be a translator working at the Tourism Bureau while attending his friend's wedding.

The lives and loves of 5 young people of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang set in a musical that reflects the upsurge of disco and breakdancing in late 80s China.

A geological prospector died of thirst in the desert, his wife sets up an inn there to help all prospectors. A young man comes and helps the lady to dig a well. They fall in love but he is actually a escaped prisoner.

The changes in fortunes of a performance troupe.

An overprotective mother frets over her son's desire to learn to swim.

Gul disguises herself as a young man to travel around Xinjiang and experience life.

A young foreign couple commissions a carpet factory in Urumqi to make a specific rose pattern. The factory director sends three young men into Hotan to look for the right carpet.