The Abyss of Northern Myanmar: My 108-Day Nightmare

When ordinary office worker Lin Zhou urgently needs money for his seriously ill mother, he is tricked by his “childhood friend,” Chen Hao, with a promise of a casino dealer job in Kokang, Myanmar, paying 30,000 yuan a month. He is smuggled across the border from Yunnan into northern Myanmar. Through the fates of twelve major supporting characters, the story recreates the brutal reality of the region’s scam compounds and the struggles of the human spirit.