First Death — One partner is killed during the internal conflict.
Location: Plant Grounds
Second Death — Another partner meets the same violent fate.
Location: Remote Area
Missing Partners — Two partners disappear without a trace.
Location: Unknown
Icebound Pursuit
An old veteran and a reckless rookie form a detective unit and descend into a glacier to track the killer and uncover hidden evidence.
Key Events
Missing Partners — Two partners disappear without a trace.
Location: Unknown
Cop Alliance — A veteran and a rookie decide to work together.
Location: Police Station
Murder Chasers — The duo officially forms the 'murder chasers' unit.
Location: Police Station
Into the Glacier — The team descends into the cold, dangerous terrain.
Location: Glacier
Deep Search — Detectives push further into the ice to find clues.
Location: Glacier
Clue Found — Hidden records of the plant and cover-ups are uncovered.
Location: Glacier Cave
Shattered Truth
As more people get involved, the detectives confront the final suspect and discover a reality that completely upends their initial assumptions.
Key Events
Clue Found — Hidden records of the plant and cover-ups are uncovered.
Location: Glacier Cave
Suspect Face-off — Direct confrontation with a hidden figure emerges.
Location: Glacier Outpost
Wider Involvement — More people become entangled in the unfolding case.
Location: Village
Final Truth — The real culprit and underlying motive are fully revealed.
Location: Glacier Core
Ethical Crisis — Detectives face the heavy moral weight of the discovery.
Location: Glacier Core
Reality Subverted — The discovered truth defies all initial expectations.
Location: Glacier Core
Case Closed — Investigation concludes with heavy consequences for all.
Location: Village
Story Breakdown
Environmental Crime — The initial establishment of the plant and illegal waste disposal.
Plant Construction — Partners build the facility in a rural village.
Toxic Discharge — Wastewater is dumped into the river to save money.
Health Crisis — Newborns suffer from severe congenital disabilities.
Internal Betrayal — Guilt and paranoia fracture the partnership.
Cover-up Attempts — Partners try to hide the pollution evidence.
Violent Conflict — Blame shifting leads to mutual accusations.
Fatalities — Two partners are murdered during the fallout.
Police Investigation — A mismatched duo takes on the cold case.
Team Formation — Old and young policemen partner up officially.
Glacier Descent — Detectives enter the harsh, remote terrain.
Evidence Hunt — Hidden documents and clues are uncovered in the ice.
Confrontation — The investigation escalates into direct clashes.
Suspect Encounter — Detectives face a hidden figure in the glacier.
Community Involvement — Villagers and others get drawn into the case.
Truth Revelation — The final pieces of the puzzle are assembled.
Motive Unveiled — The real culprit and underlying reasons are exposed.
Reality Subversion — The discovered truth completely defies expectations.
Aftermath — The investigation concludes with lasting consequences.
Moral Reckoning — Detectives process the heavy ethical implications.
Case Resolution — The pursuit ends, leaving a changed landscape.
Lost in White takes places in the north-east of China, where two bodies have been found under the ice of a frozen lake, their remains made unidentifiable by carnivorous fish, but still bearing the mark of having been dragged with an ice hook. In charge of the investigation is Captain Zhou (Tony Leung Ka Fai), a dedicated cop who's dragging along his teenage daughter Xinyi (Zhou Dongyu). Soon he's joined by Wang Hao (Tong Dawei) a young Shanghai detective who's on a missing person case that has led him to the same village where the murders happened. The two cases prove to be connected: the missing person and the two victims were part of a quartet of businessmen who ten years ago opened a refinery in the region, and disposed of chemical waste in an unethical way that has poisoned the waters and led to malformed babies in the following decade. Is the missing businessman the killer, the next victim or a red herring?
