In the latest feature from NYAFF’s Filmmaker in Focus, Zhang Wei, a majestic motorcycle club snakes its way along a glorious Tibetan highway before a nested series of flashbacks reveals the plight that brought them on their profound journey. Focusing on three old friends who live by classic codes of honor and loyalty until get-rich-quick schemes threaten to tear them apart, the film plumbs the depths of capitalistic corruption and the fiercely tragic greed and hubris it ignites. As the biker buddies experience lifestyles of overindulgent excess, with nouveau riche delusions and egregious machismo marked by their brazen objectification of women and sudden bursts of violence, Zhang Wei peppers his dark meditation with exciting tropes straight out of classic Asian crime and action films, and imbues this resonant saga with a distinctly Chinese moral compass and soul-crushing pathos.