Survival's Farce

In the fictional port city of Tianhai, a serial killer meticulously recreates death scenes from classic novels, transforming the metropolis into a grotesque literary tableau. Folklorist and reluctant detective Chen Yunsheng traces the murders to the recent return of a woman once presumed dead—a case mirroring the wrongful conviction of Luo Zhenguo. As the investigation peels back layers of hidden survival, the boundary between victim and perpetrator dissolves, revealing that when life is reduced to bare existence, every claim of moral superiority becomes a cruel and ridiculous joke.