How Did We Get Here?

Simon Liu's eerie, entrancing portrait of contemporary Hong Kong tracks a series of strange disruptions to the city's urban infrastructure. Deceptively tranquil 16mm images of everyday life are accompanied by muffled music cues, ominous radio transmissions, and intimations of an impending hazardous event that may never arrive.

A disturbed mechanic stalks, rapes, and murders young women as retaliation for the childhood abuse inflicted by his mother. He becomes infatuated with a beautiful housewife who he intends to make his next victim.