The Tainted Comfort

A storm-lashed Chinese town in the 1920s is severed from the world. When the noble Zang Jian takes his own life after receiving consolation from a mutilated outcast, a chain of ritualized murders erupts. As honor, contamination, and whispered accusations turn neighbor against neighbor, the locked-in community descends into self-slaughter, revealing that the true trial never ends in the courtroom but lingers in every breath between the living.