SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD

误杀

By Sam QUAH

TRINITY FILMED ENTERTAINMENT - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Drama - Completed 2019

Desperate measures are taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.

Festivals
& Awards

Chinese Young Generation Film Forum 2019
Zhi Hu Film and TV Award 2019
Beijing Student Film Festival 2020
Changchun Film Festival 2020
Golden Rooster Awards 2020
Hamilton Behind The Camera Awards 2020
Huading Award 2020
Hundred Flowers Awards 2020
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama, Thriller, Crime
    • Countries
    • CHINA
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN, THAI
    • Duration
    • 112 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sam QUAH
    • Writer(s)
    • Kaihua FAN, Jeethu JOSEPH
    • Producer(s)
    • Sicheng CHEN
    • Synopsis
    • Li Weijie, his wife Ayu and their two daughters Pingping and An-an, are a Chinese family living in northern Thailand since last 17 years. Weijie run an internet service providing shop and is a film enthusiast who likes to watch detective films and has deep knowledge on the subject. They come from a middle-class family.

      One day, Pingping was keen to attend a summer camp and at the camp she met suchat, the son of a political candidate and police chief. At the summer camp, Pingping was violated by suchat and he then recorded the videos of him performing obscene acts in order to manipulate Pingping.

      Suchat had arranged for pingping to meet him at the family warehouse around 10pm, but upon reaching the warehouse he noticed that Ayu was there to intervene for pingping. Ayu and suchat had a scuffle and pingping accidentally killed suchat by hitting him with a spade. After being lost and confused in the pouring rain, Ayu and ping ping decided to bury the body and informed Weijie about the incident.

      Weijie was planning to shield his family from police conviction and in turn, he had to create an alibi for his whole family and train them to intensely to fabricate a perfect story coupled with convincing alibi.

      The story involved them going to watch a boxing match at hua lamphong in thailand on the 2nd and the 3rd of which weijie carefully orchestrated the time frame as well as training his family members to remember some key details.