Wu Hongyan is a female bailiff in a regional court in West China dealing with women awaiting execution—more often than not, sentenced for crimes of passion. Every weekend, without much luck, she looks for love at the Good Luck Matchmaking dance, until she meets the husband of one of her prisoners.

Before he made his name with the electric diptych of Black Coal, Thin Ice and The Wild Goose Lake, Diao Yi’nan slunk into the shadowed corners of noir with this bruising locomotive drama. Moodily atmospheric, Night Train embarks on a haunting voyage through the industrial landscapes of modern China.