以抗战时期的1944年为背景，讲述了一个爱说谎的14岁少女和一个国民党上尉之间的情感故事。

Set during the Tang Dynasty, The Robbers tells the story of two robbers' adventures in a seemingly peaceful Bitter Bamboo Village, where they encounter a beautiful woman, a group of soldiers and a village head scheming to kill the duo.

电影讲述的是一个经历残酷青春的少年为爱复仇不惜付出生命的故事。 成长于福利学校的少年苏昂（欧豪 饰）与女孩林巧（郭姝彤 饰）相依为命，彼此取暖，然而受尽欺凌与屈辱。当少年一路野蛮成长，蜕变成为电脑天才，坏人也并未变老，于是苏昂开始编织自己的复仇计划。 一具被发现的白骨引 起小镇的轰动，刑侦队长张建宇（张译 饰）接手此案，展开调查。在案件的艰难推进中，一个个身份各异的人也被卷入此案：稀里糊涂的酒鬼，一心想发横财的屠夫申哥（周一围 饰），风流倜傥的音乐家李志民（郭晓东 饰），性感的脑科医生韩云（余男 饰）......当迷局浮出水面，谁是真正的罪人？

Movie is set during a period of time when Japanese invaded China. The story is told from Gao's perspective, a soldier seeking revenge from the Japanese in trying to assassinate the visiting Japanese chief in command. In the process of plotting such scheme, he had a chance encounter with a local Mafia, lead by its charismatic leader Fang. Fang had a bandit of followers, of which one is Fang's sister. Fang in the past have rescued many of these followers using his own blood and as a result all the members in the bandit formed a life long bond and friendship. When Gao realizes he could use the firearms and man power of Fang's bandit, he sets up a scheme to get captured by Fang on purpose. When Fang found out - he was extremely angry and upset and almost killed Gao, but Gao is saved by Fang's sister because she clearly developed feelings for Gao after seeing how he fared during the interrogation phases when he was in Fang's capture.