On the eve of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive election, a carefully orchestrated “judicial frame-up” lands Police Commissioner Lau Kit-fai behind bars, while former Deputy Commissioner Lee Man-bun discovers that a far greater conspiracy lies behind his son’s death. As the investigation deepens, a cross-class group known as the “Shadow Advisory Council” emerges. They are not terrorists, but “architects of the system” seeking to exploit a crisis to push through the Special Security Ordinance and permanently reshape Hong Kong’s rules of governance.
Secretary for Security Luk Ming-wah and legislator Ken Au-wai are dragged into the maelstrom, as all sides struggle to choose between due process and extraordinary measures. The truth that finally comes to light is brutal: all the bloodshed and sacrifice in Cold War and Cold War II were merely a “stress test” for this experiment in power. When the means of protecting a system keep corrupting it, who can still claim to represent justice? This is a war without heroes, only a system ruthlessly devouring and reshaping human nature.
