The Dark Allure of Death Betting: Taiwan's Unsettling True Story Comes to Cannes The rural streets of Taiwan are often quiet, their residents bound together by a shared sense of community and tradition.
However, beneath this façade lies a seedy underworld where people wager on the exact hour of a terminally ill person's death.
This morbid spectacle is the central plot point in "Dead End," a Taiwanese action crime thriller set to premiere at the Cannes Film Market.