Myawaddy, Myanmar, is the dark kingdom of telecommunications fraud and a lawless place.
In order to repay debts and improve his family's life, 30-year-old programmer Chen Mo was lured by an advertisement for "high-paying overseas recruitment" and embarked on the road to eastern Myanmar. What greeted him was not a technical position with a monthly salary of tens of thousands, but high walls, barbed wire, armed security guards with live ammunition, and a fraud park where he was never allowed to leave.
He was coerced into becoming a pawn in a chain of fraud. Failure to complete the task was a severe beating, and trying to escape was punishable by death. Here, human life is clearly marked with a price, and there is only a thin line between the victim and the perpetrator. Chen Mo has witnessed too many human depravities - some people succumbed, some went crazy, and some disappeared without a trace.
But he refused to accept his fate.
He secretly records crimes, looks for loopholes in the park's rules, and waits for an opportunity that may not exist. At the same time, thousands of miles away in China, a reporter investigating an overseas electronic fraud case and a family member of a victim who had lost a loved one approached this sinful city from different directions.
When the gunshots of the crackdown rang out, Chen Mo embarked on a narrow escape path.
This is an arduous journey from the abyss to the light, and it is also a mirror that reflects the darkness and glimmer of human nature.
When lies are the only "truth", surviving is the bravest resistance.
Reader comments
It's repetitive in many places and doesn't look good.
It's repetitive in many places and doesn't look good.