Description

When thirty-year-old Meng Ning expresses that she really wants to be considered a Buddhist nun, her mom is aghast. In her eyes, a deprivation is meant only by nun 's life - 'no independence, no love, no meat'. But to Meng Ning, this means the opportunity to manage her own future, and to reside within an oasis of music, poetry, and artwork not even close to her parents' unhappy marriage. By having an enigmatic nun referred to as Yi Kong, 'Relying on Emptiness', as her mentor, Meng Ning spends the next ten years disdaining males abroad, studying, and planning to enter the nunnery.