Second Sister

About

A schoolgirl named Siu-Man has jumped from her twenty-second-floor window. Her older sister — the librarian who raised her — refuses to believe it was simple suicide. Nothing seemed wrong. She contacts N, a reclusive Hong Kong private investigator and hacker, who begins peeling back layers of Siu-Man's digital life. What he finds is a trail of cyberbullying, manipulation, and exploitation hidden behind the screens that dominate modern adolescence. Chan Ho-Kei's technological thriller uses Hong Kong's hyper-connected urban landscape as both setting and weapon. N's investigation moves between physical streets and digital networks with equal fluency, revealing how the tools that connect us can also be used to isolate, humiliate, and destroy. A mystery for the digital age — about the violence that happens in plain sight, on screens everyone is watching and no one is reading.