聚焦他的哥哥，一個挖玉石的人。緬甸玉礦區也是鬧獨立的戰區，但玉石工不斷湧去，甘冒戰火和沙土淹埋的危險碰運氣。哥哥16 年前曾挖到寶，但都揮霍掉，半個錢沒拿回家，也逃不掉礦工宿命染上毒癮。趙德胤拿起影機走進礦區跟他算這筆賬，發現了哥原來有個留學夢，自己卻實現了。鏡頭前的無情真相驚擾了拍攝計劃，翡翠之城的面相沒錯有他哥，但也有他自己。

A young farmer and his father are barely able to survive on their meagre corn harvest and so they make their way down from the mountains to the village to borrow money from their relatives working in jade mines or on opium plantations. But missing paperwork, deceit and corruption have left them impoverished too. Finally, the father pawns his cow for a moped so that his son can earn a living as a taxi driver. His first customer is Sanmei, who has returned to Myanmar to bury her grandfather. She decides not to go back to China and to get out of an arranged marriage in order to begin a new life with her son in her old country. When Sanmei accepts a job as a drug runner she persuades the young farmer to be her driver.