Summer Detective (2019)

平原上的夏洛克

Chaoying, Shuhe and Zhanyi are three ordinary rural elders who have a good relationship and often drink together.Recently, Chaoying sold all his cattle which he had raised for a long time，and began to renovate his old house full of ambition. However, an accident at the construction site happened unexpectedly. Shuhe, who came to help Chaoying build the house, was hit by a car which ran away. According to the convention of the village, if the killer cannot be found, Chaoying will be responsible for the unaffordable medical expenses. And in this case, he would had no money for his house. In order to keep Chaoying’s house and to demand justice for their friend, two old rural men, Chaoying and Zhanyi, embarked on the journey of chasing the hit-and-run driver. They rode three-wheeled electric motors and ran on the vast North China Plain. It was doomed to be an absurd journey…