Like filmmaker Ding Jiancheng′s statement on life, which he describes as "life is as fragile as a piece of paper," this film articulates this point as a Cine-Poem. During the Cultural Revolution a young man living in a small village of northeast China, meets an old man who collects billboard sheets, transforming them into paper sculpture. He listens to the old man′s story of his daughter′s death, which has left a great wound in his heart, and how he began making paper sculptures. From then on, the old man′s dead daughter appears in the young man′s dreams and fantasies. Ding Jiancheng attempts to explain life though the motif of paper, reflecting on the unique customs of the Chinese, for example the paper sculptures used during funerals. On the other hand, his take on life calls upon a universal and philosophical perspective as well. Ding Jiancheng presents the various incentives that enable the man to look back on the meaning of le, in contemplative style. And through this he leads the viewer into identifying with the painful life of the old man whom the young man observes with compassion. (Kim Ji-Seok)