Yunhu Town

A death-row inmate whose sentence has been suspended opens a livestream with a hidden phone while on his way to receive medical treatment outside prison. Looking into the camera, he says, “I wasn’t the one who killed the little girl in Yunhu Town ten years ago.” The livestream is cut off, but the video has already spread across the internet.

Investigative reporter He Zhiyuan recognizes the face in the video, as well as a name long forgotten: retired detective Lin Ge. Ten years ago, Lin Ge pointed out at a hearing no one cared to attend that the chain of evidence had flaws. Nobody listened.

When He Zhiyuan reopens the investigation, he discovers that behind the little girl’s case lies another, more deeply buried skeleton. It points to a man who has held sway over Yunhu Town for twenty years, and the executioner he raised with his own hands: the murdered girl’s biological father.

This is the story of a group of “imperfect people” seeking the truth in their own ways. Ten years of wrongful imprisonment, twenty years of buried bones, and countless crushed souls are all waiting for an answer. When that answer finally comes, someone pays with their life, someone with their freedom, and someone with a lifetime of silence.

And that answer tells everyone: even when justice arrives, it never comes free.