The Human Heart Is Not Revealed

She can see everyone's unspoken emotions, but she has never truly understood a person. Freelance illustrator Xu Zhiyu received an old DV tape left by his deceased mother. In the video, the father of documentary director Lu Yanci is standing in the corridor of her former childhood home, and the content of the shooting points to the project that was aborted eighteen years ago - "Twelve Households in the Old City". Strangely, there are only eleven households in the official archives. The non-existent twelfth household, torn sketches, tampered images, and a woman who refused to be told by anyone, gradually pushed the secrets of two generations back to the camera. Xu Zhiyu has always believed that emotions don't lie. But the deeper the investigation went, the more she discovered: seeing sadness does not mean knowing the cause of sadness; seeing guilt does not mean that she has the right to convict others. And Lu Yanci, who has always been silent, seems to be hiding the same secret as her. This time, what they want to trace is not the murderer, but how the life of an ordinary person was rewritten into another appearance through the lens, editing and other people's explanations.