Still Life

Han Sanming (Han Sanming) comes to the town of Fengjie to find the wife who left him and the daughter he has not seen in years. Shen Hong (Zhao Tao) arrives in the same place looking for her husband, while around them whole streets are torn down and the Yangtze creeps up toward the old buildings. Jia Zhangke follows both of them through the rubble, and each keeps asking after one person in a town that is disappearing.