In the autumn of 1998, Lin Jianguo, a veteran worker at the county machine factory, was repairing a scrapped punch press during his lunch break when his right leg was amputated. Liu Sanpao, head of the factory security team, insisted it was “a violation of safety procedures” and refused to pay compensation. Lin Hao, his eighteen-year-old son, takes up the fight, starting with his father’s empty trouser leg, an altered equipment log, and a receipt for the sale of scrap steel. Together, they pry open the first crack in the county’s web of power. This is about more than workplace injury compensation. Lin Hao also wants the thirty thousand yuan Liu Sanpao pocketed from the scrap steel, security for his father’s remaining years, and a reckoning with the tangled web of interests hidden behind that lost leg. Brothers, evidence, journalists, rules... Lin Hao walks the gray line between the system and the underworld. His first step begins in the county seat.
Worth recommending, real plot, exciting!