People always ignore the potential dangers in life.

The Fangshan district of Beijing is rich in marble. Almost all the high-quality white marble in the Forbidden City came from here. I grew up in one of these villages when I was a child. It is illegal to mine stone without government permissions in China. But these villages in the town which is famous for its storage of marble have countless private marble mines. Villagers dig a hole which can capacity a tractor on those mountains, quarrying and even hollowing out the area of the mountain to the other side of these mountains. The air here is thick with marble dust, once considered as a sign of prosperity in the stone-rich town. Suddenly, the local government began to strictly implement the previous policy, and all the calm was suddenly broken.

After many people were punished or jailed, the dust became evidence of their guilt. Subsequently, the government gradually reduced the intensity of management. The irony is that people seem to forget what happened before. Many have returned to their old jobs. So I decided to make a video of the dust in the water to illustrate the ridiculous and ridiculous story between the dust and me and my hometown. On the one hand, people think that their mistakes will disappear like dust sinking under the water. On the other hand, people do not use the law as a yardstick, because the local government actually have the distribution power, and their enforcement of the laws becomes the new criteria. They use this method to reach a balance between promoting local economic development and responding to policy from Beijing government. After more people were arrested, villagers finally stopped quarrying.They feel all those things are in the past. But in fact, the damage they caused will always under the water. As to the question whether they are guilty or not, the power rests with the local government.