Set in a quasi-ghost town that once thrived with oil in China's arid northwest, Yumen is a haunting, fragmented tale of hungry souls, restless youth, a wandering artist and a lonely woman, all searching for human connection among the town's crumbling landscape. One part "ruin porn", one part "ghost story”, and entirely shot on 16mm, the film brings together performance art, narrative gesture, and social realism not only to play with convention and defy genre, but also to pay homage to a disappearing life-world and a fading medium.

一段虚构的真实，无限接近而遥不可及，在混沌中，城把人丢了，人也会把城忘了。2012年春节我们三个人带着一部16毫米摄影机来到被称作“鬼城”的甘肃玉门。在这座废墟面前，导演试图以外来者的方式介入玉门这座被遗弃的城市。当三位当地的女性进入视野之后，才得以完成这部关于玉门空城、关于记忆和幻想的影片。