On the Qingming Festival in 2005, the Li clan, whose generations had lived in Dongwan Village on the banks of the Yellow River, held its first collective ancestor-worship ceremony. Unexpectedly, the police suddenly arrived at the Li family cemetery on Yulong Mountain and arrested Li Huaixiao on the spot. This sparked a major reckoning, upheaval, and clash over friendship and self-interest, marriage and family, morality and the law, clan and individual, loyalty and betrayal, human nature and money, reflecting a shocking, colorful, bizarre portrait of contemporary society.
