Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China is where the world’s first outbreak of COVID-19 occurred in January 2020. Today, the city is being touted within China as a “City of Heroes” that defeated COVID-19. Behind the scenes, however, the voices of bereaved families who lost loved ones to the virus are being silenced. Their social networking sites are being frozen or deleted, they are being followed, their devices are being monitored, and they are being repeatedly interrogated by the police. The truth about Wuhan, the so-called “City of Heroes” is revealed in a year-long exposé seen through the eyes of a son who lost his father to COVID-19.

2020年1月、世界で最初に新型コロナウィルス感染症の感染爆発が起きた、中国湖北省・武漢。いまや中国国内では「ウィルスに打ち勝った“英雄の街”」と喧伝されている。しかし、その陰で新型コロナで家族を亡くした遺族たちの声が封殺されようとしている。SNSの凍結や削除、尾行に盗聴、さらには警察による度重なる取り調べ…。遺族の1年におよぶ闘いを通じて、“英雄の街”武漢の真実を明らかにする。

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