Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlig...。隋朝末年,天下大乱。大业十四年三月十日江都兵变,炀帝被侍卫所杀,江上却突然降下浓雾,十数日不散,不分昼夜,日月无光。传说炀帝广修运河之时,惊动了《山海经》中所载的神兽夔牛。一时间妖兽四起,天下大乱,民不聊生,各方江湖人士齐聚神秘的渡口驿站“草行渡”,整个客栈内是敌是友,扑朔迷离,天下究竟要何去何从……。