As a radioactivity meter beeps in the background, we travel to the most devastating place on our planet. Before the journey, the hellish spectacle of an atomic bombing is presented as a guide video. Is this a sci-fi film depicting a dystopia or a horror film featuring an invisible enemy? At the vanguard of modern Chinese documentary, Zhao Liang’s camera starts from the near past of Fukushima, goes through the old ruins of Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, and Chernobyl, Ukraine, and arrives at Onkalo, Finland, an underground city built as a nuclear waste facility. There, we paradoxically witness a beautiful apocalyptic landscape and encounter people who have lived alone for decades. Above all, Zhao Liang′s camera becomes ever so powerful when capturing the faces and bodies of residents confined in the controlled area. And this film becomes a prayer for mankind and a page in the apocalypse with stern warnings and chilling prophecies. (KANG Sowon)