Credited cast: | |||
Vicky Chen | ... | Mia (as Qi Wen) | |
Meijun Zhou | ... | Wen | |
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Ke Shi | ... | Attorney Hao |
Le Geng | ... | Meng Tao | |
Weiwei Liu | ... | Wen's mother | |
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Jing Peng | ... | Lily |
Yuexin Wang | ... | Jian | |
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Mengnan Li | ... | Lieutenant Wang |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen | ... | Motel manager | |
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Xinyue Jiang | ... | Xin |
In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only just begun. Trapped in a world that offers them no safety, Mia and Wen will have to find their own way out.
China needs such films to break away from the noise of capital and tell a good story quietly. The portrayal of the three generations of old, middle-aged and young women is realistic and makes the plot very natural. Only two points must be deducted at the end. The turning point is too stiff. Another point was deducted because of the senseless lenses of literary and artistic films.