“Fires on the Plain”: Broken Destinies in a Changing China

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This Chinese thriller focuses on the fate of young people from Dongbei, the country's largest plain, heavily impacted by economic changes starting in the 1990s.
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I subscribeIn December 1997, in northeast China , two taxi drivers were found strangled and their car burned within weeks. Their colleagues demanded that the police identify and arrest the killers quickly. Jiang, an investigator, took charge of the case, but the killings continued, permeating the town of Fentun and its surrounding areas with an atmosphere of fear and mistrust.
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