The foreman, Lao Niu, is being pressed for unpaid wages by his fellow villagers. Unfortunately, the contractor and construction subcontractor, Manager Gao, is also owed contract payments by Song, the developer of the "Fenhe Garden" project. As the real estate market continues to slump, all those involved, burdened by their own wrongdoings, are trapped like a row of doomed grasshoppers tied together— roasting over a fire with no escape in sight...
