Director: Zhang Guorong | Cui Xiwei

Synopsis

After his release from prison, Meng Xiang poses as a monk and swindles people to make a living. By chance he returns to the long-abandoned primary school of his childhood, where he meets his old classmate Chen Ya. The two sound each other out and begin a series of conversations. As they look back on everything that happened at the school, a long-buried secret comes to light: who was involved in the principal's death? Meanwhile, Chen Ya is plotting a scheme with the livestreamer Wu Yu. Meng Xiang discovers this real-or-fake livestream about life and death and is drawn into it. In this abandoned school, death crosses time and space and is toyed with by the livestream. In the face of life, money, old ties, harsh reality and the emerging truth, the human choices made are hard to imagine, and the relationship among the three keeps shifting. In the burning flames, everything gradually comes to light and at the same time turns to nothing. The fates of the three are also turned upside down in the raging fire, and the scheme and the truth remain shrouded in mystery.