The Breaking Ice

Haofeng (Liu Haoran), visiting from Shanghai, drifts into a tour in wintry Yanji and meets the guide, Nana (Zhou Dongyu). She introduces him to Xiao (Qu Chuxiao), a restaurant worker frustrated with his life, and the three spend a drunken weekend together. Anthony Chen follows them through the cold border city as each tries to get free of what has kept them frozen, and none of them knows yet how much it will cost.