The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall

Year 1645. Scholar Fang Zhiyou descended into madness following the suicide of his childhood friend. Overwhelmed with grief, unable to continue writing, and chased by past traumas; he began drowning his sorrows in alcohol and developed a mental condition that made him see people as beasts. On the 24th day of the fourth lunar month, after drinking heavily, Fang collapsed in the street on his w…