Stories from Northern Liaoning

In northern Liaobei in the 1980s, as China’s reform and opening-up gathered momentum, people either went into business or left their hometowns for distant places. Jiang Weidong, a graduate of a technical college, refuses to inherit the family business, an auto repair shop, and insists on joining the criminal investigation squad at his uncle’s urging.

How will this hotheaded young man overcome skepticism in the grueling police force and write his own era-defining story with the fire of youth?