In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.
Dong Zijian
Zhou Dongyu
Ren Ke
PAPI
Huang Bo
Dong Chengpeng
White-K
Lei Peng
Jia Zhangke
Xu Zhiyuan
Wang Hongwei
Wang Hongwei
Zhang Zixian
Bi Gan
Huang Lu
Zheng Dasheng
Bu Guanjin
Kevin Tsai
Chen Liaoyu
Lihui Shen
Xu Lei