在一个压抑无望的夜晚，拥有超凡脱俗美丽容颜但是全然看不到一点生气的年轻女子文珊（马羚 饰）拨通了热线电话，心理学家潘菁（刘冬 饰）接通后几番询问对方是否遇到了困难。经过漫长的沉默过后，文珊幽幽道出想要离开这个世界的想法。任凭潘菁如何呼喊阻止，但去意已决的文珊还是割开了自己的手腕。危机时刻，文珊的男朋友大宝（仇晓光 饰）破门而入，救下了奄奄一息的爱人。悲惨的身世或许是这位美丽女子自寻短见的原因，她自幼被父母遗弃，养父宋安成（李幼斌 饰）又是一个禽兽不如的男人。虽然和出租车司机大宝在一起体会到些许的安慰，然而悲痛的记忆折磨得她失去了活下去的希望。
她的人生，她的命运，掌握在谁的手中？

The horror story set in the contemporary China centers on a young intellectual’s ominous journey to find his lost girlfriend and the truth behind the breakup.

2022 film directed by Sylvia Chang, Li Shaohong and Joan Chen

The film charts the fortunes of two women who loved each other as sisters, but whose paths diverge when the Revolution brings an end to their old way of life in the brothel.

Freely adapted from Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the film follows the investigation of a local teacher's murder in a small and desperately poor rural village, the story of the crime gradually pieced together from the fragmented memories of witnesses forced to testify at an inquest. Sharing with her Fifth Generation colleagues Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang a remarkable eye for the barren landscapes of northern China and a fascination with small-town life — especially those enduring superstitions that Communism failed to erase — director Li Shaohong also introduces several formal innovations, particularly in storytelling structure, that remain unprecedented in Chinese cinema.