The Pluto Moment

Loosely based on The Tale of Darkness a traditional song of mourning the film follows Wang Zhun a director in search of inspiration for his new script as he embarks on an unpredictable trek across Chinas remote Shennongjia mountains in Hubei province with an urbane producer Ding Hongmei a young actor named Bai and his loyal photographer Du Chun The journey delivers a relentless series of unexpected physical hardships and subtle emotional ebbs and flows on the protagonists