[2] Uniform was filmed primarily in Diao's home province of Shaanxi on digital video and on a shoe-string budget in September 2002.

Both Yu Lik-wai and director Jia Zhangke served as artistic advisers to Diao during Uniform's production.

Wang Xiaojian (Liang Hongli) is a down-and-out slacker in a small town in China's industrial Shaanxi province.

Stuck working in his family's tailoring and laundry shop, one day, Xiaojian comes across the freshly laundered uniform of a police officer.

Attempting to deliver it, he discovers that the police office who the uniform was intended had been injured and would not be back on the job for a few weeks.