Beginning in the Cultural Revolution, The Enemies of Art describes the lives of three friends who dream of artistic pursuit. However, when freedom finally comes in the Reform period, they find their ideals challenged by the lure of money. As these rapid changes occur, they learn to reconcile with each other, their pasts and the future.
1960s China, and society is commanded to rebel against tradition.
Amid the political turmoil, three young artists look out from their attic salon onto the streets of the northern port city of Tianjin. When economic reforms turn society on its head, they are given licence to indulge their artistic passions. Deluged by the increasingly materialistic masses, they paint themselves onto separate paths as they lose track of once sacred certainties. In this warming age where everything is fluid, can the bonds of winter hold?
