Her name is Xiao Li. She has believed in God for more than a decade. In the winter of 2012, she was arrested by the Chinese Communist police at a congregation. During interrogation, the police repeatedly coaxed, threatened, battered and tortured her in their attempts to seduce her to betray God by disclosing the whereabouts of the leaders and money of the church. Particularly in one frozen night when the temperature was twenty degrees below zero, she was forcibly stripped naked, drenched with icy water, electrically shocked on her genital, and force-fed mustard water by the police.... She had suffered brutal torture and unimaginable humiliation.
돈에 눈이 먼 마을 촌장에게 대항하기로 결심한 광부 ‘따하이’, 폭력이 지배하는 현실에 회의를 느낀 시골 출신의 청부살인업자 ‘조우산’, 유부남 애인과의 이별을 준비하는 사우나 직원 ‘샤오위’, 어린 나이에 가족의 생계를 책임지게 된 청년 ‘샤오후이’. 이들은 참혹한 현실에 부딪혀 거부할 수 없는 운명과 마주하게 되는데…