This is a chronicle of the dark side of the changes in a heavy industrial city, and also a complete record of the career of an ordinary criminal police officer.
The story begins with an old case disguised as an accident deep in the mine, and ends with an encrypted file that has not yet been decrypted in the provincial archives. For more than ten years, the desk of veteran detective Lin Guodong was filled with all the pain and secrets of the city's transformation period.
His job is to salvage those sunken cries:
Cruel accusations unearthed from abandoned equipment
A confession written in blood in the ivory tower
War orphans have been waiting for the cherry blossom promise for half a century
On the eve of the layoff wave, a desperate account that detonated the shady world with one's life
Behind the golden robbery, the ghost network across the border...
This is not an isolated crime, but a slice of time. Behind every dossier, the fate of a group of people is implicated, and the collective memory of a stage is imprinted. From the heyday of the roaring machines of large state-owned factories to the pain and loss of restructuring and transformation, the lamp in Lin Guodong's hand illuminates not only the sins, but also the path traveled by an entire generation.
Eight major cases spanning ten years are connected together into a cold and affectionate civilian epic. Here are the grievances of a special era, the ups and downs under the torrent of the market, the tenacity and loss of a generation of workers, and also the ordinary figures who insist on holding up lights on long winter nights to seek justice for the silent.
It will be bright.
But at every foggy intersection, someone has to remember which direction the light began to appear.
In an era when everyone chose silence, he chose to speak.
In a history that everyone wants to forget, he chooses to remember.
Because he is a detective.
Because the truth should never be buried deep.
