"Nature" is a rural realist film about human nature, motherhood, and family affection. One winter morning, in a remote mountain village, a young madwoman hid among a stack of straw. She was taken in by Xizi's mother, known for her stinginess and selfishness, and married to Xizi, who was unable to find a wife. The madwoman and Xizi married and soon gave birth to a son, Zhuzi. Xizi's mother, believing rumors that the madwoman's breast milk was poisonous, forbade her from breastfeeding and kicked h...