Creative Statement

One day the journalist Yang Chu receives a letter from the Xinghai City detention centre. As she records the story of the suspect, Xiuxiu, she keeps digging for the fundamental truth. Is the girl Xiuxiu an innocent lamb led to slaughter, or an unforgivably cruel, cold-blooded killer? What happened in that remote northwestern village in midsummer more than ten years ago? Who led an innocent child into darkness, and where did the faint firefly light that lit up her dark life come from, and why did it go out?