Director │ XU Wei-chao, CHEN Wei-xi
Producer │ Andersen XIA
SHENG-wei has been drifting down the streets in Shanghai, making a living by scavenging. A vlogger uploaded a footage of him sitting on the side of the street, reading and talking about The Zuo Tradition to the internet, putting him under the cyber spotlight instantaneously. “Masters drift, and clowns claim the thrones.” The netizens started fabricating legends about him, forging their own respective masters from their own respective point of view, treating him as a rhetorical allegory of the time. The online celebrities, like leeches drawn to the taste of blood, all try to get something out of his short-fleeting glory. Since then, his life track took a drastic turn, same as 26 years ago when he was diagnosed with a mental illness. When fate propelled him to return to the society, how would he come face to face to the crime and punishment in his previous sufferings? When each and every fans are on high hopes of him creating a brand new world on streaming platforms, only SHENG himself appeared disengaged and hesitant. He knew that all this was not what he really wanted. As the cameras close in on him, will he be able to escape Truman’s lot, and live a new life that he really desires?
