业务员吴飞心地善良，他救起了昏倒在路边的农村少女林小妹，并将她带回了家里。原来小妹与永生相爱，可是父母硬逼她嫁给有钱的老头，她和永生逃了出来，却在火车站走散了。吴飞的妻子赵红打了一夜麻将回到家中，发现小妹不禁妒火中烧，赵红一股脑发泄着自己对吴的不满，准备离婚。不久，得到 消息的永生来接小妹，小妹看到永生有两万元钱，以为是永生偷了吴飞的，连忙还了回去，才知道是吴飞借给永生的。小妹与永生在大坝上准备结束此生，吴飞夫妇赶到，吴的一番肺腑之言打消了小妹轻声的念头，也使消除了赵红对他的怨恨。

在一个压抑无望的夜晚，拥有超凡脱俗美丽容颜但是全然看不到一点生气的年轻女子文珊（马羚 饰）拨通了热线电话，心理学家潘菁（刘冬 饰）接通后几番询问对方是否遇到了困难。经过漫长的沉默过后，文珊幽幽道出想要离开这个世界的想法。任凭潘菁如何呼喊阻止，但去意已决的文珊还是割开了自己的手腕。危机时刻，文珊的男朋友大宝（仇晓光 饰）破门而入，救下了奄奄一息的爱人。悲惨的身世或许是这位美丽女子自寻短见的原因，她自幼被父母遗弃，养父宋安成（李幼斌 饰）又是一个禽兽不如的男人。虽然和出租车司机大宝在一起体会到些许的安慰，然而悲痛的记忆折磨得她失去了活下去的希望。
她的人生，她的命运，掌握在谁的手中？

The horror story set in the contemporary China centers on a young intellectual’s ominous journey to find his lost girlfriend and the truth behind the breakup.

2022 film directed by Sylvia Chang, Li Shaohong and Joan Chen

The film charts the fortunes of two women who loved each other as sisters, but whose paths diverge when the Revolution brings an end to their old way of life in the brothel.

Freely adapted from Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the film follows the investigation of a local teacher's murder in a small and desperately poor rural village, the story of the crime gradually pieced together from the fragmented memories of witnesses forced to testify at an inquest. Sharing with her Fifth Generation colleagues Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang a remarkable eye for the barren landscapes of northern China and a fascination with small-town life — especially those enduring superstitions that Communism failed to erase — director Li Shaohong also introduces several formal innovations, particularly in storytelling structure, that remain unprecedented in Chinese cinema.