Judge

In a small northern Chinese city in 1997 Judge Tian privately struggles with the loss of his daughter killed by a stolen car in a hitandrun accident On the bench he encounters Qiuwu a mechanic accused of stealing two cars Perhaps influenced by his emotional state the outwardly impassive judge imposes an almostobsolete criminal law on Qiuwu that sentences him to death for his crime Desperate to mitigate his sentence Qiuwu agrees to donate his kidney to a rich businessman dying of a terminal illness hoping at the very least that his impoverished family may profit from his demise