A Play in Yunyang

Xu Laiyun, who has spent years drifting in Beijing, has always held to one belief: when a great director makes a debut film, it must be extraordinary and dazzle the world. Yet a few months later, he finds himself at the foot of the hills, from one village to the next, in his hometown of Yunyang, putting up a tent and performing opera. He has become the new troupe leader of his hometown's second-tier opera troupe.