Silent River

In 2018, developers dredged the "Cannibal Pond" in Yahe Village and unearthed seven skeletons, the last of which belonged to Chen Xiangming, a mentally retarded woman who "drowned into the river" in 1991. Historian He Xi is commissioned to investigate and discovers a "secret account" that has been passed down secretly for hundreds of years by the six families of He, Chen, Liu, Wang, Zhao and Sun. It records numerous collective crimes in the village since the "Water Ghost Case" in 1923: competition for resources, cannibalism, persecution of female educated youth, and the systematic violation and murder of Chen Xiangming. He Xi was even more horrified to discover that he was Chen Xiangming's posthumous son and was adopted by the mastermind He family. Investigating is like tearing open the scabbed skin of a village. With the intervention of capital, Internet exposure and the awakening of a new generation, the century-old silent contract collapsed. He Xi stands at the crossroads of blood, nostalgia and truth: should he take over the secret account and become the new secret keeper, allowing the river to continue to be silent; or should he reveal all his sins and bear the price of letting his homeland collapse? This river, which has been mute for hundreds of years, is waiting for a deafening echo.