Octopus with Broken Arms

1/11/2025

When the daughter of a wealthy businessman is kidnapped from his home, the police (Yihong Duan) are called just as the felons demand $100 millions as a ransom. "Zheng Bingrui" (Yang Xiao) has little faith in the authorities so decides to pay, and to follow the instructions for delivery he's getting over the phone. The girl's teacher "Li Huiping" (Liya Tong) feels partially responsible and insists on accompanying him. With cameras, trackers and microphones almost everywhere, we now follow their frankly rather preposterous journey and along the way learn a little about just what is motivating the criminals to persecute this outwardly upstanding citizen. There is plenty of action at the start, and as the underlying story starts to evolve, the plot becomes quite sophisticated in it's search fo