[Deep Current]

The officialdom is like a river, calm on the surface but full of deep currents below. You can go with the flow, but you must never forget where you’re headed.

Sent in from outside to become the magistrate of Dongchuan County, Chen Mo steps into the seemingly calm but treacherous undercurrents of officialdom. An unintentional act by a poverty-alleviation cadre exposes a decade-old hidden problem, and forces from every side maneuver in a whirlpool of interests and principles. The only things he can hold on to are his hands, caked in dirt, and the path he must keep following.