One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.这时候刮痧婆走了过来，一把把我推开，用手在我爷爷的鼻子上面探了探，皱着眉头摇了摇头，又用手放在爷爷的脉搏上面摸了一下，抬头对身后围观的村民说谁去找头黄牛过来，速度要快。