The Policy of Control

In Republican-era Shanghai, an insurance investigator probes a routine traffic death that uncovers a web of staged accidents and forged policies. As he narrowly escapes repeated "accidents," he realizes the mastermind is a fellow investigator—one who doesn't just kill for money, but systematically erases the victims' identities, turning them into mere numbers on a claim form. The true horror is not the fraud, but the psychological annihilation of every person caught in the scheme.