Ash Is Purest White

“In a world in ruins, love and loyalty burn out, but never disappear.”

Qiao (Zhao Tao) is a dancer in the underworld of Shanxi, the girlfriend of a local gang boss named Bin (Liao Fan) and sure of her place beside him. When a fight breaks out, she fires a gun to protect him, and it costs her five years in prison. Jia Zhangke follows her out of the gate and across China, the same face in every place, searching for the man she was ready to go to prison for.