In the Haibei People's Hospital, Qinghai province, China, the present-day on the night of a full moon, a patient is murdered by a syringe through her chest. This adds stress to the hospital's heart surgeon Gu Zhen Sheng who had recently lost his wife Xia Xue to an illness. Since his wife's death, Gu has been suffering from nightmares that have affected his work, and Xia Xue's younger sister, Nurse Xia Xiao Yu also is emotionally disturbed.
Acting
Simon Yam's haunted, sleep-deprived surgeon
Production
Grimy hospital corridors that feel genuinely wrong
Director
Zhang Jiabei
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Qinghai's actual high-altitude hospitals, where oxygen deprivation reportedly made the crew as uneasy as the cast looked on screen.
Director Zhang Jiabei largely disappeared after this; Francis Ng later said he took the role purely to work with Simon Yam, calling the script 'barely there.'
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