Tao and Dong promised each other theyd return to the village where the latter grew up in Inner Mongolia before following his family who left to find better fortune in a large city in Southern China This voyage is a mere pretext meant to reconnect the two childhood friends who were separated for ten years With a rare sensitivity Tao Gu films this companion who was lost not only from view approaching him stealthily to capture all of his tragic intensity his disillusioned generosity Dong has remained a dreamer besotted with rock an incensed body struggling to find money he comes up with a jade business which does not work out love sex and above all to live following his own conceptions of liberty under the ambiguous gaze of his parents and his successful brother
