Ash is Purest White - JIANGHU ERNU

In 2001, young Qiao is in love with Bin, a small-time gangster in Datong's underworld. When Bin is attacked by a rival gang, she comes to his defence and fires several shots. She is sentenced to five years in prison. When she comes out, Qiao sets off in search of Bin and tries to reconnect with him. But he refuses to follow her. Ten years later, in Datong, Qiao is single, having become successful by keeping to the gangsters' code of behaviour. Bin, worn out by the ordeals he has been through, comes back to meet up with Qiao, the only person he has ever loved...

"The couple in the film are outsiders. They survive by rebelling against conventional social order. I didn't try to defend them but rather to understand them in their misfortune ... I started writing this scenario as if it was a journey through my own emotions : my lost youth and my dreams of the future. To live, to love and to be free." Jia Zhang-ke