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Guo Wen-han, Mayor of Wanhe City, was seeking re-election but being kidnapped a few days before polling day by a young man from the North Bank, a poor and seriously polluted area of the city. It was a scheme plotted by a local petrochemical enterprise, hoping to ensure Guo's victory in the election so that their expansion application could be approved afterwards. However, this false kidnap turns to be a real one after the plot went astray and everything was out of control.... The fiction story, based on a true social issue of Taiwan, depicts struggle of the unprivileged for environmental justice under a huge web of polico-business complex.
Credited cast: | |||
Ray Chang | - | Rock | |
Han Chang | - | Kuo Wen-Han | |
Jieh-Wen King | - | Rock's dad | |
Pei-An Lo | - | Chuang Hou-An | |
Peggy Tseng | - | Wen-Chi | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Sean Liu | - | Tseng Ming-Chung | |
Hung Hsiu Wu | |||
Pong Fong Wu |
This is not a theatrical feature film, but it is a TV movie for public broadcasting station of Taiwan.