Hui Ling, who works at the Thai-Malaysian border and dreams of a better life in Taiwan, needs to make ends meet when she finds herself penniless. Her boss suggests a way to make money quickly: to work alongside human traffickers handling refugees from the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority group.

Malaysian filmmaker Edmund Yeo’s off-center and dreamlike feature is a sweeping tale of displacement and morality. We, the Dead powerfully sheds light on the nature of human exchange and the spaces and overlaps between art and history.