Wu You is as carefree as his name suggests. He is single and lives with his nearly 70-year-old mother Zhang Baoxia. He joins an organization called Sunshine Club and becomes a senior partner, but his mother suddenly falls ill.

An aimless film school student goes on an ambling road trip across China in a rickety old Jeep in this charming, deeply personal road movie.

A chief of police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly; clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the locals.