When a mobile phone stops being just a way to stay connected and becomes an instrument that reshapes speech, intimacy, and the way we perceive the world.
Popular television host Yan Xiuyi is a master of words—yet he is almost incapable of candor. Behind the facade of his success lie infidelities, anxieties, and an inner emptiness that cannot be filled by conversation or wit. Around him, the lives of women, friends, and casual acquaintances converge and diverge—and each, in their own way, gets lost in a reality where endless calls and messages no longer explain anything or save anyone.
“Luc Zhengyun’s harsh, cold satire of a society gripped by mobile fever has continued—and found new life in the film adaptation by Feng Xiaogan.”” — CHINADAILY