The Suspended Step

Yang Xiao • 2020

Zhang Xing fails to resign. Even worse, the chief editor of the newspaper he works for promises him a promotion and sends him back to his hometown to write a postive review on a mediocre film. After ten years of absence from there, what awaits him is the hometown that have changed beyond recognition and friends that have gone separate ways. Soon after getting stuck with his writing, he starts to notice something strangely attractive about this place...