A young HK hoodlum kills a cop, flees to the mainland, lives for awhile in a Shaanxi village, and gets in touch with his roots. This film looks like it's trying to bridge two incommensurables: the world of modern HK urban gangsters, and the ancient rural world of YELLOW EARTH, of the classic 5th generation mainland films. Ambitious, but a little too predictable, and (unrealistically?) optimistic.