This is a story about redemption, adapted from a real case in 2013. On the civilised stage of the city, the people the story is based on lost their chance to appear, but in their remote hometown they are the protagonists of their own lives. When two lonely lives meet, the emotion and vitality that burst out make a particularly beautiful sight. The Nu River links the places where the story takes place. The redemption in the film happens on the two characters' journey home along the river. It is not simply going home, but two restless souls returning to the essence of life.
In a small town on the China-Myanmar border, a father who has lost his daughter returns to the hometown he left many years ago. He does everything he can to hunt down the "big sister" who hurt his daughter. After many twists and turns, he finally finds her held captive by drug dealers. Seeing her in desperate straits, the father changes his plan and single-handedly helps her escape from the drug den. On the way home across the Nu River, as the father's true identity is revealed, the "big sister" suffers both physical and mental torment, while the father, in this unusual search, pieces together the truth of his daughter's death. Two lonely souls who were once opposed begin a new contest...
Genre:
Drama, CrimeDirector/Screenwriter:
Liu JuanProducer:
Gao Minzhe | Sun YangProduction Company:
Xiamen Chips Pictures Co., Ltd.Executive Producer:
Jia ZhangkeLiu Juan: graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and Columbia University. Wrote and directed the film Unfinished First Love (starring Zhang Hanyun, Ran Xu, Dai Xu and Li Xian), which received a Special Award of the Asian New Talent Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival, and the film Old Friends Like a Dream (starring Lü Xingchen and Wang Chuanjun). The documentary Balafu I received a Hollywood International Independent Documentary Award.
Gao Minzhe: double degree in engineering and economics from Tsinghua University; participant in the USC producers program. Representative works: Divorce Lawyers and Red Rose. Sun Yang: graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. Films produced have received jury honours at the Pingyao International Film Festival. Representative works: Under the Sun, Red Flowers and Unfinished First Love.
Xiamen Chips Pictures Co., Ltd.: Chips Pictures has an experienced marketing and business team that works on a project from its early stages through its whole cycle, closely integrating marketing angles, points of emotional resonance and business needs with the story, so that the content remains complete and coherent while drawing enough public interest. Chips has provided casting and full marketing services for a number of major projects. Films it has co-produced or led marketing for include Soulmate, This Is Not What I Expected, Last Letter, Li Na, Leap and Coffee or Tea?.
Jia Zhangke: film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer, and founder of the Pingyao International Film Festival. His works, including Still Life, Ash Is Purest White, Xiao Wu, Platform, A Touch of Sin and Mountains May Depart, have won major awards many times at international film festivals including Berlin, Venice, Cannes and Busan.
A middle-aged father who has lost his daughter travels a long way in pursuit of her killer to find out the truth of her death, and is drawn into a secret deal in a small border town...