为国庆献礼的红河大桥刚刚通车就突然垮塌，震动全省。公路桥梁局漂亮女局长司雪被疑与承建商有染，牵连其中。丈夫乐文身在作协，生性风流，带领作家赴为吴水为最大建筑商高风歌功颂德，心怀侥幸代妻受贿，落入圈套。痴情女波波，痴恋乐文，无果南下深圳，又是另一番情感纠葛，剪不断理还乱......小说为你揭开政治场的幕后真相，写尽作家圏的龌龊面孔，道尽漂泊族的辛酸命运。小说把政客，作家，暴发户，南漂一族......集于一座门下，让他们各自展开心灵的搏杀与自救，灵魂与肉体的对抗中，呈现给读者的，是商品经济大潮下现代人赤裸裸的灵魂......（The Honghe Bridge, which was established for celebration of the National Day and has just been opened to traffic, suddenly collapses, shocking the whole province. Si Xue, the beautiful woman director of the Road and Bridge Bureau, is suspected of having affairs with the bridge contractor. Her dissolute husband Le Wen, a member of the Writers' Association, leads other members to Wushui for flattering the biggest local contractor. Finally, he is trapped for taking chances in bribe-taking for Si. Bobo, who loves Le deeply, ends in no result and leaves for Shenzhen, getting involved in another complicated love affair... This book uncovers the dark inside of politics, the ugly features of writers and the sad memories of the city drifters. The figures of politician, writer, new-rich and city migrant in southern China cities are gathered here to fight with each other in mind and to save themselves. In the battles both between minds and bodies, the souls of modern peopleinvolved in this commodity economy are exposed to our readers...）