Moxi Zishi

A chief of police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly; clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the locals.

When a human skeleton is discovered after a bridge collapse, a murder case from years ago is revealed. The daughter of the deceased, Wen Xiaoyu, is assisted by a boy, Meng Chao, in her quest to trace the cause of her father's death.