In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves.

This early work of Hu Bo (director of An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)) was his graduation work at Beijing Film Academy. It features the self-redemption of a lumbago sufferer, which is a metaphor.

The milk ordered by a man's family is always being stolen. He doesn't know who to blame. Could it be the pregnant woman who is always smoking, the dirty homeless man, or the kid with the toddler tiger hat?

A sick, middle-aged man gets on a train bound for Tianjin. A young man told him that this train could take him to Córdoba, or anywhere...