A young woman receives a mysterious letter and a train ticket. She boards the train with the ticket and meets a woman who claims to be her mother.
Acting
Kara Hui's maternal presence shifts from warm to terrifying.
Production
Train car becomes suffocating limbo between life and death.
Director
Jiangnan Zhang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chinese train travel symbolizes transition and ancestral connection; the film weaponizes this for supernatural dread.
Director Jiangnan Zhang vanished after this film, making it an accidental one-and-done cult curio.