China's one-child policy was a mandatory family planning policy (1979–2015) that restricted most families to one child to control rapid population growth. Enforced through fines, sterilization, and contraception mandates, it caused significant social, gender, and demographic shifts, including an aging population, labor shortages, and a significant gender imbalance.

‘Leftover Women’ is how the Chinese describe educated, cosmopolitan women who are not married and settled by the time they reach their mid-twenties. Through marriage markets, matchmakers, and government-sponsored dating events, the film follows three hopeful singles who, under immense pressure, are determined to find love on their own terms.

Film is in Mandarin with English subtitles.