A couple (Jian RenZi and Andrew Lin) who has been unsuccessfully trying to have a child for a few years, and decides to resort to an old Chinese fertility ritual, that of the “primer”: to temporarily adopt a child, who will open the way for their own progeny. They adopt a quiet 7-year-old girl (Wang Yifei) at an orphanage whose supervisors (Hui Shiu Hung and Pat Ha) are obviously not telling them everything. The adopted child is silent, asocial and constantly draws disturbingly dark pictures of her previous family. It doesn’t help that her new mother is beset with strange visions that threaten her sanity.
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Jian Renzi
Siu-Hung Hui
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Lynn Chen Director
Worldwide gross $54K · First release December 23, 2016 · Produced in China
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$53,708
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Original title
失心者
Original language
Chinese
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Chinese
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China · December 23, 2016
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