Southern Rain

<p>As China's once-glorious Ming dynasty tears itself apart a young man and woman struggle to stay together. Set before the backdrop of one of the great upheavals in Chinese history Southern Rain is the story of a carpenter's son who falls for a brilliant Buddhist nun just as she is set to become a powerful man's concubine. Their adventures lead them north to Beijing and south to the Yangtze valley as art theater and poetry give way to foreign invasion banditry and chaos. In a world of turmoil their search for freedom and safety comes to mirror China's own. Southern Rain is both an intimate portrait of a man and a woman and a sweeping historical epic presenting China's tumultuous seventeenth century on a human scale.  </p>