A story about a missing child, and how this led to the interaction of three seemingly different lives: a mute misfit miner looking for his son (Song Yang); a lawyer on the verge of losing his licence (Yuan Wenkang); and a mining tycoon (Jiang Wu). Cinematography, at times, beautifully depicted the remoteness and uncertainty of the situation. While the director tried to use beautiful metaphors to imply events, sadly they always ended up explaining the whole thing, leaving the metaphors only for show. I suspect this may be due to strict rules with movies in China; the unnecessary ending-note felt inserted just to tick some requirement. I feel like the charcters could have more backstory and development to make the interaction towards the end even more tense. All in all, a nice watch and really scratched my itch for movies that unravel slowly.