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THE WIG

戴假髮的人

By Yue DONG

Thriller - Post-Production 2021

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Thriller, Second film, Crime
- Countries
- CHINA
- Languages
- MANDARIN
- Director(s)
- Yue DONG
- Cast
- Xiaoming HUANG, Yinglu WANG, Congxi LI
- Synopsis
- Having failed his legal exams, self-taught law student Meng is forced to moonlight as a night-shift cab driver. During a violent altercation with a drunk customer, and unable to restrain his pent-up fury, he pushes the man into a river.
  Years pass. Now a successful lawyer and family man, Meng is haunted by his past. Hoping to make amends, he tracks down the family of the drowned man.
  Meanwhile, he is being stalked by a stranger with damaging information about his past… Far from the redemption he seeks Meng might well be heading towards his own destruction…
  A bittersweet noir thriller, A COVER-UP is a rollercoaster ride through guilt and deliverance, set in the backwaters of contemporary China.