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画皮师是随天地而生的古老职业，历代画皮师仅凭一只神奇的画笔行走世间，可为人重塑筋骨，易容改貌。 　　这一代的画皮师方祭本该在几十年前死去，却因他师父以命相救而活了下来，在经历了“不老”的数十年后，方祭仿佛是被“画皮师”三字禁锢了的人，他试图挣脱“画皮师”的枷锁，却最终无法割舍自己背负的责任。画皮师自古以来都遵循着古训，一师一徒秘传着画皮的法术。方祭的徒弟穆一骞乐观、直率且阳光是机关术方面的天才。他曾是京城内有名的富家少爷，在遇到画皮师后穆一骞抛弃了过去的浮华生活，跟着方祭云游四方。

An unadorned perspective on impoverished life in Okinawa. 17-year-old Aoi works as a nightclub hostess in order to earn rent money and to provide for her little boy and his lazy father, who has no qualms about hitting his wife. Yet how dark does reality have to get before it stifles the rays of hope that filter through?

Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers ...