One Summer

One summer night Zhen Lius husband Xiao Ping is arrested out of the blue and cannot be reached after being dragged away by the police 30 days earlier Liu goes to the police in search of information about her husband but to no avail Her husbands sudden disappearance slowly destroys her while her relationship with her kindergartenage daughter becomes rocky as well She visits her husbands friends to ask for their help but gets only various assumptions about his arrest in return Liu manages to bring her former boyfriend and attorney Lv Xin on board and together they search for her husband Thanks to Lv Xins connections they locate where her husband is but the polices unreasonably demanding requests eventually discourage her husbands release An unassuming examination shown in documentary style of a Chinese society helpless under state power