A small-town policeman, 42-year-old Ma Shan, wakes up one morning to discover that his gun is missing. In China, an officer who loses his gun can be sent to prison for up to three years. Believing he must have lost it at a wedding he attended the previous evening, he begins to track down the people he sat close to at the wedding. But he fears the gun’s absence is not accidental - and that whoever has it plans to use it. First on the list is Zhou Xiaogang, the richest man in the town as a result of some shady business, and also the brother of a soldier who died while fighting alongside Ma Shan in China’s war in Vietnam in 1979. On his way to Zhou’s house, Ma Shan begins to discover that things are suddenly not all they seemed to be in his town...(Production Notes)