On Thursday, she was expected to testify further in the campaign-fraud conspiracy case against Mr. Liu's former campaign treasurer, Jia "Jenny" Hou, and a longtime political supporter Xing Wu "Oliver" Pan.
The action, loosely based on a true story and filmed on location at and near a Utah university (and, briefly, in China), concerns Liu Xing (Liu Ye), a brilliant young astrophysicist from Beijing who travels to the United States for graduate study under Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), a scientist whose work he admires but whose best years and ideas are behind him.