改革开放的大潮下，古老的皇城北京也按捺不住那份躁动。人们来去匆匆，生活节奏陡然加快，躁动的摇滚乐和肆无忌惮的谩骂响彻夜空，看不到未来却又为未来拼搏的年轻人们恣意宣泄着心中的愤懑。摇滚乐手卡子（李委 饰）的女友毛毛（俞飞鸿 饰）怀了孩子，两人为要与不要的问题大吵一架。之后毛毛失踪，装作不在意的卡子又四处寻找女友；崔健（崔健 饰）与乐队在摇滚乐之路上艰难前行，身无分文的他们交不起场地租金，被迫打起游击，乐队的排练经常受到干扰；卖书为生的黄yellow（臧天朔 饰）被骗子袁红海（武啦啦 饰）骗尽钱财，他和哥们好友四处寻找骗子，结果兄弟间反倒出了矛盾。滚滚洪流，这群不甘受缚的青年趁着韶华未尽，可劲儿燃烧、挥霍着他们这无望、困顿的青春……
本片荣获1993年洛迦诺电影节评委会奖特别提及。

作家狗子和民谣歌手老狼以及本片导演唐大年，应“西局书局”之邀，在日本“无赖派”作家太宰治离世七十周年之际，踏上了寻找太宰治之路。从太宰治生活过的东京三鹰市、吉祥寺，到青森老家，以及太宰治出生地金木的老屋———著名的斜阳馆，再到太宰治多次自杀的镰仓，并且走访了太宰治的私生女、被称做“斜阳之子”的太田治子。他们漫游于太宰治足迹所到之处，且喝且行且聊，关于太宰治、关于酒、文学、女性和死亡，其间也有种种争执和冲突。所谓的寻找之旅，其实是每个人的向内追寻，在太宰治的迷雾中，照见自己。

The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a chaotic period in November of 1993, when production suddenly halted on Zhang Yuan's TV film adaptation of a popular novel, Chicken Feathers, after the Chinese Film Bureau announced that Zhang could no longer direct the film due to submitting his previous independent feature, 1992's Beijing Bastards, to a film festival in Japan without receiving the proper authorization to do so. Ning's documentary features anguished meetings between the Chicken Feather's production crew as they debate replacing Zhang with another director, along with testimonials on the state of censorship in Chinese independent cinema of the early '90s from Wu Wenguang, Tang Danian, He Jianjun, Cui Jian, and others.