Nineteen years ago, a joint rescue operation brought back eleven abducted girls from the mountains. Zhou Jiming, the young police officer in charge of registration, thought that as long as he sent them home, the nightmare would be over.
Nineteen years later, a matchmaking center manager died in an abandoned passenger terminal. The identity of the deceased was unknown, and the scene had been carefully cleaned, but there was an old, mutilated ticket clutched in the palm of his hand. Zhou Jiming followed the ticket and discovered that the deceased Cheng Yonghe was the driver who transported the abducted girl. As the investigation deepened, a rescue photo that had been dusty for many years reappeared: there were only eleven girls in the file, but twelve people were standing in the photo, and the person responsible for taking the photo may have been the "thirteenth person" who had never been registered.
Soon, another person related to the old case died hundreds of kilometers away. The two most motivated women each had impeccable alibi. Zhou Jiming gradually realized that this was not a murderer's continuous revenge, but a group of survivors completing trials for each other - A killed B's enemy, and B produced evidence for A; they used different identities, cities and techniques to drag the traffickers who had not been punished nineteen years ago back to the darkness one by one.
They testified against each other and cleared each other's suspicions.
Facing the truth nineteen years late, Zhou Jiming had to find out who was behind the scenes, but he also had to re-examine the "rescue" he once believed in: Was the girl really saved when she was taken out of the mountains? When the law fails to arrive in time, is the justice sought by the survivors themselves justice or another crime?
On one side is revenge that cannot be turned back, and on the other is a murder case that must be investigated. Zhou Jiming followed the twelve names
