Yan Xing took seven students from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze to stay in a villa in the mountains south of Lucca. Here they spent a week rehearsing a performance based on a story Yan Xing had invented under the inspiration of Pasolini's The Decameron (1971). On April 2 and 3, 2016, this performance was staged at Tenuta Dello Scompiglio. The story goes as follows:

A scholar has arrived at a nearby art academy for a stint as a visiting professor. One student gains the professor's esteem with a proposal for a play adapted from Pasolini's The Decameron, specifically "Fourth day, fifth tale–Three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover." This student plans to collaborate with classmates on a theatrical performance to take place at the end of the semester. One day, the students go to the mountains for rehearsal and discussion. Someone demands leadership over the team, someone begins to question the artistic nature of the script, someone suspects an inappropriate relationship between the professor and a student, someone is indifferent to this collaboration, and someone launches baseless attacks against another student. The narrative clues hidden behind the disputes gradually emerge, revealing alliances, conflicts, betrayals, and suspicions among the young people. Finally, in a fit of rage, one student accuses another of having killed and desecrated the body of the professor before coming to the mountains.

Yan Xing uses literary and cinematic classics as the backdrop for the story, narrating a chilling modern parable in a tone that is humorous as well as brutal. The performance not only reveals the predicaments faced by modern individuals, but also examines the variability, malleability, and fluidity of contemporary life.