She killed someone. He knows she knows. But nobody's talking — and the silence is deafening.
A middle-aged couple's comfortable life changes forever when the wife, driving home alone in the rain while slightly intoxicated, runs down a pedestrian and flees in panic. Her guilt over the hit-and-run, compounded by her husband's suspicions of what happened, begins to affect their once loving and happy relationship.
Acting
Wang Zhiwen's suspicion conveyed through silence and cigarettes
Direction
Huang Jianxin turns a Beijing apartment into a pressure cooker
Writing
Dialogue so ordinary it chills — nobody says what matters
Director
Huang Jianxin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of China's 'urban generation' cinema exploring moral ambiguity in market reform era, when personal success often trumped collective ethics.
Huang Jianxin called it his 'anti-thriller' — deliberately rejecting Hitchcockian suspense for the horror of bureaucratic normalcy.
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