This crime drama follows a group of young men, who at face value just appear to be nasty thugs that above all else are up for a good fight. Trying desperately to make a name for themselves and become the type of gangsters people bow down to, Zheng cleverly takes the edge off the brutality by balancing it with some charmingly dry humour.

An ideological struggle, an unpredictable death, on the road to escape, is the mystery of the brothers' dying and identity. The mysterious Ewenki, a low-key silent man, a confusing identity, a difficult fusion of modernity and tradition, a painful time of grievances and entanglements, a fierce confrontation between humanity and emotions, how to be good and evil, true and false endings...