Complex sentence: The film is set in contemporaneous Beijing and begins with bookseller Zhao Xiaoshuai (Jiang Wen) following his ex-lover An Hong (Qu Ying) home.
Split into simpler sentences: The film is set in contemporaneous Beijing. It begins with bookseller Zhao Xiaoshuai (Jiang Wen) following ex-lover An Hong (Qu Ying) home.