Trailer: 'Her Heart Beats in Its Cage'

‘Her Heart Beats in Its Cage’ (监狱来的妈妈) is a 2026 Chinese drama co-written and directed by Qin Xiaoyu.

The film follows a former prisoner attempting to reconnect with her fractured family after serving years in prison for killing her abusive husband. The cast includes Zhao Xiaohong, Zhang Haoyu, Liu Shuyi, Zhou Ping, and Hao Yanfei.

Synopsis: After killing her abusive husband during a violent confrontation, a woman is sentenced to prison, where she spends the next decade behind bars. Granted early release years later, she returns to a world that has moved on without her, struggling to reconnect with the son who barely knows her and the mother-in-law who lost her own child because of her actions. Burdened by guilt and the weight of the past, she must decide whether it is still possible to rebuild a life from the ruins she left behind. [© Far East Films]

‘Her Heart Beats in Its Cage’ is scheduled for release in China on May 30, 2026.