The bitter winter of 1998, Qinbei City. The life of Chen Shusheng, an honest deputy section chief in the supply department of a state-owned enterprise, is utterly crushed by a high-end bicycle he has just bought for his son, Chen Liang. Jealous of their classmate, other students brutally beat Chen Liang, leaving him with a severe brain injury. Then an even greater tragedy follows: Bai Muyi, an emergency doctor at Xijing No. 2 Hospital, coldly misdiagnoses the injury as “superficial,” delaying treatment until 17-year-old Chen Liang dies in agony on the eve of his birthday.
A Father's Revenge is a bleak and brutal social tragedy. It tells how an ordinary father, besieged by the pain of losing his son, medical negligence, judicial injustice, and human indifference, is driven to change from victim into perpetrator and ultimately toward self-destruction. It questions the limits of justice, examines the cost of revenge, and exposes the depths to which humanity can be twisted by extreme injustice.
