Liaoxi Memento Mori

In 1959 a group of intellectual Rightists from colleges and universities in Shenyang and criminals from prisons arrived in the desolate area of western Liaoning Province They wanted to build a railway here for a mine Taking the fate of Yin Shaoyao a lecturer at Liaoning University as its focus this film records this groups experience of being labelled as rightists of Reform through Labour of being starved and killed Their personal files reveal the details of their transformation their personalities encouraged them to betray each other incriminating materials were put in their files and their political lives were destroyed Ideological reformation killed their spirit while physical labour and hunger destroyed their bodies The film also records how people who resisted were suppressed and what happened to peoples humanity in this most cruel of environments