The Imperial City is Like the Sea

Set against the smog-blanketed sprawl of contemporary Beijing, returned avant-garde theater director Yu Songpo sparks a public firestorm with his provocative new play, The Urban Revelation. When an estranged street wanderer and the family of his domestic worker cross his path, an old secret from a past medical misdiagnosis resurfaces, threatening to unravel his household. Xu Zechen crafts a nuanced panoramic inquiry into urban alienation, hidden guilt, and moral responsibility across social classes in modern China.