12 dark tales about the modern Chinese society.

"This country is shit," a poor farmer proclaims in this dark documentary of the modern Chinese society. We meet a moralistic park ranger outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, rich stock brokers, a weapon factory worker who wishes Mao was still alive, hotel employees hoping for a better life, a young artist whose greatest desire is to become a Chinese Van Gogh and many others. Across regions, professions, social and economic classes the anonymous men and women tell stories of hopes, dreams, identity and the struggles of everyday life in a country moving fast forward.