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Fengjie, China, 2005. In a docudrama, the painter Liu Xiao-dong, one of the most prestigious Chinese names in contemporary art, goes to the region of the Three Gorges to make a series of paintings. He paints 12 laborers that work dismantling installations in the region that will be flooded to build an enormous dyke. Fengjie with its 2000 years of history is soon to be destroyed. After the completion of the Three Gorges Project, the town will be completely submerged. During his stay with the laborers, the artist is gradually taken by this hard reality. The film was made in the same region in which the director set the feature Still Life and was also selected, like this one, for the 30th Mostra.