Whats in the Darkness

A serial murder case rocks a small town in Chinas semirural Hebei province The film explores the case from the viewpoint of a teenage schoolgirl Jing Su Xiaotong who becomes entangled with the case while struggling with her own burgeoning sexuality In the face of police ineptitude and authoritarianism and the restrictive conservative mentality of the towns locals Jing begins to develop her own theory about the case