Hard Like Water

"In the midst of the Cultural Revolution, Gao Aijun returns from the army to his wife and kids feeling like he still has more to give to Mao’s revolution. When he meets Xia Hongmei, a beautiful woman who feels the same way, they begin a torrid affair and devise a diabolical plan to revolutionize their ancestral village, like a Chinese Bonnie and Clyde. Few are better than Yan Lianke, a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, at satirizing the madness of China’s turbulent 20th century."