A 13-minute phone call that'll wreck your entire day — in the best way.
One day, young Li Na receives a call. It's from her little brother, who's home alone, waiting for his father to return. He's been gone for days and hasn't given any further signs of life. With the successive calls, the tension grows, as does Li Na's need to help, despite the insurmountable distance that separates them. Roberta Chávez breaks down the boundaries between social drama and urban thriller in a film that radiates a serene nostalgia.
Acting
Suhui Xia's voice carries entire oceans of worry.
Direction
Chávez builds thriller tension from stillness and silence.
Sound
Every click, breath, and background hum matters.
Director
Roberta Chávez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chávez deliberately blurs social drama and thriller genres to mirror how migrant families live in constant low-grade crisis — ordinary life perpetually on the edge of catastrophe.
The film speaks to China's internal migration crisis, where over 280 million rural workers have left children behind — 'left-behind children' (留守儿童) number nearly 7 million. Li Na's distant panic is devastatingly common.
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