Specialized in abstract art Hsu PaoChing is a middleaged painter who struggles in his career By chance he begins giving at art lessons in a prison where he discovers that Chou ChangTing one of the inmates has great talent for painting He holds am exhibition of Chous works however as Chou committed random attacks and killed several people a protest is staged against it In the end Hsu gets hurt and the exhibition is withdrawn Hsu cannot understand why the public cannot appreciate art without prejudice and decides to approach the victims family Moreover Hsu goes to Chous old family home in search of the inspiration for Chous paintings
