Director: Cheng Kangyi

Synopsis

On a midsummer afternoon shortly before the college entrance exam, Zhou Hao, a final-year high school student, is taken to hospital by ambulance and dies despite efforts to save him. The police initially determine it to be a case of school bullying and question the bully Zhao Hongliang, the victim's mother, the victim's classmate Wu Xiaowei and Teacher Wang, who taught the class that day. During the investigation the police find major contradictions among the four people's accounts, and all of them seem to be hiding something. So who is lying? What is each of them hiding, and why? Is this investigation a true account of the facts of the case, or a sinister performance staged to deceive? Yet something even more frightening is quietly happening during the investigation...