To discuss the massacre of Chinese students who confronted power at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, in 1989, Liu Wei works from a realm that is at once intimate and transpersonal. The photograph of a man who stands alone facing a line of war tanks on the square, overrun by Chinese troops —one of the most iconic images of the 20th century— is the code for accessing memories blocked out by fear and censorship. The artist approaches passersby and questions them about the event. The question is repeatedly met with denial and evasion; the massacre is a taboo topic. There is no complicity, empathy, mourning, or grief; faced with the picture, everyone falls silent or runs away from the camera and their own memories.

This is a documentary about the armed violence in China during the Great Cultural Revolution. Traces are spread out from the only left 「Cultural Revolution Graveyard」 in Chongqing, through looking for the kinsfolk of the victims and the survivors participated in the fights, ask them to recount their experience and the scene of the armed violence of the Cultural Revolution, recollect the impact of the bygones to their life in the course of their growth, listen to their opinions and reflects to the historical disaster.