A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
Acting
Zhou Dongyu's silence hits harder than any dialogue.
Direction
Tsang turns cramped spaces into emotional pressure cookers.
Director
Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The gaokao (college entrance exam) is literally life-or-death in China; the film's original 6-month ban suggests censors feared audiences would see systemic violence, not individual tragedy.
Jackson Yee was 17 during filming — his first dramatic role, and he learned to smoke for the character despite being underage. The rawness is real.
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