The Abandoned (Chinese: 查無此心) is a 2022 Taiwanese mystery crime thriller film directed and co-written by Tseng Ying-ting.
Contents
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
Chloe Xiang as Wilson
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.