The Fourth Brother plot
Observing portrait in dark black and white of a man who, after having spent half his life in prison, continues his criminal life at home in an industrial city in northeastern China. The viewer gets to know him through his sister, who visits him in the house where he lives with his wife. She tells that Fourth Brother ('Si Ge'), as she calls him, disappeared when she was about seven or eight years old and that they didn't see each other for twenty years after that. The camera follows the brother on a scavenger hunt and records his graphic explanation of the pickpocketing technique and his stories about how he ended up in prison.