Starring: Pierre-Matthieu Vital, Qilun Gao, Jian Jiang, Yu Ting Si Tu
Director: Simon Chung
Running Time: 92 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 8th 2013

Set in southern China, a western man (Pierre-Matthieu Vital) is found naked by the side of a river. The police pick him up, but he doesn’t say anything – although it’s not clear whether he can’t or if he’s simply refusing. The doctors can’t work out what’s wrong with him and so decide to transfer him to a mental hospital.

A male nurse takes pity on him though, feeling this man isn’t ‘mad’ and so helps to liberate him from the hospital. Slowly we learn how the man ended up on the riverbank and the dramatic events that took place during his relationship with a young Chinese man. [Read more…]