Parhat Azimat- school teacher from Uyghur village on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert. His childhood football dream was strangled by his father. Many years later dream sport returns to his life with a dozen boys from his new class.
Detective Dee is pardoned of prison by the empress with the condition that he solve a complicated case in 7 days, that of ghost soldiers who have ended the life of officers of her majesty.