The Abandoned (2022 film)

The Abandoned (Chinese: 查無此心) is a 2022 Taiwanese crime film directed and co-written by Tseng Ying-ting.

Premise

On New Year's Eve, a corpse washed up on the shore stops Wu Jie, the police officer, when she is ready to kill herself. The victim was a migrant worker without her heart and a finger. It is obviously a murder. Police get no more clues from the body. In the meantime, they get an anonymous call, which complicates the case. Wu Jie concludes that whoever abandoned the body is not the killer. Lin You-sheng is in trouble because a female dead body has been found in a factory. To avoid the police, he buries the body in the mountains by himself. In the meantime, his girlfriend, Waree, has lost touch. Wu Jie finds Lin and asks him to identify a body that turns out to be Waree's. Lin is seen as the prime suspect of the serial murders.

Cast

• Janine Chang as Wu Jie
• Ethan Juan as Lin You-sheng
• Sajee Apiwong
• Hsueh Shih-ling as Huang Dong-qi
• Chen Wei-min as Sheriff

Release

The film was screened in the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF)'s Competition section on October 22, 2022, followed by its Taiwanese premiere at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival on November 5.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• The Abandoned on Facebook