電影聚焦於當下中國極度火熱的「直播」現象。直播世界千奇百怪，電影不是一場單純的獵奇，更有意避開那些「月入千萬」的「網紅大V」，反而去看一些意想不到的直播畫面。這裡有建築工人、製衣女工、火災導致面部毀容的倖存者⋯⋯在虛擬世界的話題與流量背後，這些普通人所表演著的，是自己那孤獨卻喧鬧，奇異卻平凡的人生。全片由網路直播畫面剪接而成，從800多小時的資源中選取素材，再著意調色成黑白，力求穿過電影銀幕和手機鏡頭的雙重過濾，在黑白之間探求人們真正的內心世界。

In 2017, the Chinese government placed draconian restrictions on China’s wildly popular live-streaming platforms, affecting over 400 million active Chinese streamers. Called “anchors”, these individuals produced countless hours of streams, and director Zhu Shengze took over 800 hours of their pre-censorship footage and edited it down, focusing on selected anchors on society’s margins. She weaves streams from farmers, machinery operators, gender non-conformists, street artists, the poor and the poor-of-health into a two-hour tapestry about ordinary people broadcasting their ordinary lives to the world. What emerges is an engrossing and heartbreaking document about our still-evolving digital society, and our lack of connection in a world that, thanks to the internet, is paradoxically more connected than ever.