Article 20

“In the mundane, we seek hope; through justice, we guard this world!”

Han Ming (Lei Jiayin), a middle-aged prosecutor, pursues one last chance to move up the ranks at the Municipal Procuratorate. His investigation into a case pulls him deeper while his wife Li Maojuan (Ma Li) and colleagues navigate their own ambitions and compromises. Zhang Yimou traces how a man's hunger for advancement mirrors the small betrayals that wear down a marriage, leaving him alone in his office, the case file open on his desk.