Verdict in the Hills

In a remote Hubei mountain village during the early Republic of China, a government investigator arrives to re-examine a decades-old murder case. But the village’s elders hold their own primitive court, where the ghosts of a childhood betrayal and a forgotten injustice demand a new sacrifice. As the investigator digs deeper, he uncovers that the real crime was never the wife’s disappearance—but the village’s collective silence that turned a traumatized boy into a tyrant judge.