Ling (Fan Bingbing) receives a marriage proposal from her boyfriend. She wants to accept, but confesses that she’s hiding a dark past — she once escaped a scam compound where she was forced to run romance scams. Having deceived others by holding love hostage, how much of what she says can be trusted?
Ivan Tan is a Singaporean filmmaker. His debut short, Tadpoles (2013), made history as the first Singaporean film to win a Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival, after which he studied film directing at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK. Following the selection of his project for the Southeast Asian Film Lab at the 2022 Singapore International Film Festival, he is currently developing his debut feature film.
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
