Ai Weiwei built his reputation as one of China's most visible artists and then turned that visibility into a weapon against the state that once celebrated him. This short film traces the arc from his early monumental works, including his role helping design Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium for the 2008 Olympics, to his break with the government that followed. Interviews and footage cover his installations, his blogging and social media activism, and the 2011 detention that made him an international cause. The film treats his art and his politics as inseparable: the same instincts that produce a piece like his porcelain sunflower seeds also produce the tweets and public statements that put him under surveillance and, eventually, under arrest. What comes through is a portrait of an artist who treats visibility itself as protection, working in the open precisely because a public figure is harder to silence quietly. It is a compact introduction to why Chinese authorities found one sculptor so hard to manage.