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A town in Heilongjiang province, northeast China, 1999. The body parts of a murdered man are found scattered within a 100-kilometre radius, and the victim is identified by an identity card as Liang Zhijun (Wang Xuebing), who worked in a local coal plant. Zhijun's wife, Wu Zhizhen (Gwei Lun-mei), works at a small dry-cleaning shop. Detective Zhang Zili (Liao Fan), who has just been through a painful divorce from his wife (Ni Jingyang), identifies two coal workers as suspects. During their arrest, Zili is wounded. Still traumatised by what happened back after 5 years, Zili's drinking heavily. His former colleague, Wang (Yu Ailei), approaches him with details of two recent murders which bear a similarity to the original case and whose victims, both found wearing ice skates, also knew Zhizhen. Zili decides to follow Zhizhen around. Zili later follows Zhijun and sees him disposing of Wang's body parts, but fails to apprehend him. The police question Zhizhen, but the case is not over yet by a long mark.
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