One family. Two explosions. Five years of lies. You think you know who lit the match?
In the coastal town of Fogang, a family's life within the state oil corporation collapses after a gas explosion in 1997, leading the son Chen Shan to unearth factional conspiracies behind the tragedy through a new blast in 2001.
Acting
Jiang Xin and Chen Zheyuan's mother-son tension crackles
Direction
Xin Liu frames coastal decay like a funeral portrait
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fogang's real-world parallels to China's 1990s state-enterprise collapses give this its bitter authenticity — these wounds are still fresh for millions.
The dual-timeline structure mirrors how trauma actually works: 2001 keeps bleeding into 1997 because the characters never left that room.
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