Forensic doctor Shen Zhiyi believed that her mother, Lin Qiuhua, was just a frail retired teacher.
It wasn't until after the funeral that she found a letter from thirty years ago among the belongings - the last sentence of the letter was:
"If I die, don't let them count me as an accident."
Shen Zhiyi began to investigate. What she didn't know was that two people had asked the same question for a long time.
One is Ye Ming, an investigative reporter who was marginalized by the newspaper. She changed her name and stayed dormant for many years, just to find out the truth about her sister Fang Yao's disappearance after she "voluntarily dropped out" of college.
The other is retired forensic doctor Zhou Min. She handled those cases thirty years ago, and she personally changed the conclusion of every report. She thought it was protection, but later she found out it was complicity.
Three women, three timelines, pointing to a perfectly concealed truth in the same city——
In the past thirty years, at least seven women have disappeared "voluntarily", "accidentally" or "insanity". And each time, there was a decent man standing in a safe position, smiling, watching them in silence.
When Shen Zhiyi finally touched his edge, she discovered a fact more suffocating than the murderer:
It's never just a hand that silences those women - it's an entire system.
