Focuses upon ordinary people caught in the throes of a rapidly changing Chinese society by following the work of acclaimed painter Liu Xiao-dong. First he goes to Fengjie in China, then to Bangkok. In Fengjie, Liu captures gaunt male workers, shirtless, both at work and in repose. The space is framed by a stunning landscape into which signs of industrial relics slowly intrude. In Bangkok, he paints young female Thai models. Fengjie’s male workers may have been posed with playing cards and Bangkok’s models lounge in printed dresses with fruit, but despite the many oppositions, the two sets of paintings are united in the impassivity on their subject’s expressions, and in the cultural malaise they seem to embody.