Song Fangyuan

Contemporary Shanghai. Four women are pursuing happiness in their lives. Their stories intertwine, as if they were those of a single person. A young executive argues with her fiancé about starting a family. A PhD student clashes with her professor about her thesis about happiness. A teenager fails to find the perfect boyfriend who meets her father's expectations. A young woman dreaming of the US is stuck in a cab with the cabdriver in love with her. The respected director, winner of multiple awards at major international festivals, returns with an intricately structured story about the search for happiness.

When Gu Dai, a soon-to-be graduate of Ningcheng University of Public Security, is first taken on an internship with the Criminal Investigation Police, he is involved in a series of kidnappings of writers in the name of "games" - eight suspense novelists are kidnapped overnight and disappear. When Gu Dai thinks he has deduced the mastermind behind the case, all the clues are thrown at him and he becomes the first suspect in the kidnapping case.