One of the few and of the better Chinese horror movies. The plot revolves around the ghost of a murdered girl, who haunts a creepy, retro basement. A sound technician and an actress encounter her unhappy soul when the come to the film in the now cobweb ridden, dilapidated building.
In the summer of 1983, a provincial capital in the north. During ten years of turmoil, Ding Peng, the guard of Gao Changhe, former Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, who was sent to labor reform in Xinjiang on suspicion of murder, was released after serving his sentence.
During the Japanese evacuation from China in 1945, a poor and ill mother leaves her child to her Chinese sister-in-law. Years later, she returns to China to find her child.