Copper Mountain, Inside the High Wall

In the summer of 2018, 20-year-old fraudster Han Shisan entered Tongshan Prison in Xishan Province and was sentenced to six years in prison. Within the high walls, time flows in another way. There are strict overt rules here, as well as intricate and tacit gray laws. Regional township parties, labor positions, cigarette gambling bureaus, cash and materials circulating underground... Form an invisible and tenacious web of survival. Han Shisan, a newcomer from another province, has nothing but his eyes for silent observation and his instinct for survival. He witnessed the rise of old criminals, and experienced the humiliation and tempering on the assembly line; he witnessed the crazy calculations in the gambling game, and also came into contact with the secret "cash account" transactions; he experienced the complex human relationships caused by a bowl of meat, and in the bloody public punishment and the short festival carnival, he got a glimpse of the most naked desires and fears under the Iron Curtain. From the trembling new criminals to the "half of his own people" who carefully deal with the forces such as Huang Hai and Rosen (Er Gou), Han Shisan got to know the pulse of this place bit by bit between compromise and perseverance. Chen Liang's violent break, Shi Pan's cannon fodder fate, Chen Dalong's primitive cruelty, Wang Fugui's cautious warning... Everyone is interpreting different aspects of Tongshan. This is not only a story about atonement and transformation, but also an ukiyo-e depicting the struggle, power game and abnormal survival of human nature in extreme environments. Han Shisan's six-year sentence was a process of taming and branding each other with the steel forest of Tongshan. Can he survive more than two thousand days and nights, hold on to the last glimmer of light in his heart, and what kind of mark will he leave with in the end? Everything starts from Tongshan