In the gloomy fog where technology and human nature intersect, "Amber Folds" opens a strange curtain. When female forensic doctor Shen Zhao dissected the corpse of a serial killer, she discovered a mysterious quantum chip, which revealed the "Brain Iris Project" hidden in the darkness. Interpol captain Lu Lin pursued the case, but witnessed witnesses' time confusion, and Shen Zhao actually appeared in the scene surveillance of the massacre case 20 years ago. Everything implies that this is no ordinary case.
As the investigation deepens, the "Immortality of Consciousness" conference held by technology company CEO Jiang Yanzhou becomes a key turning point. Lu Lin's missing sister appears at the conference, making the incident even more confusing. Shen Zhao suffers from "time entropy syndrome", and the scenes he sees reveal the horrific connection between the murder and Nazi human experiments in World War II. Lu Lin was even more shocked to discover that the "ghost killer" he was chasing was actually his darkened version of himself in another timeline.
It turns out that the powerful are trying to steal the consciousness of historical dead souls through wormholes, and Shen Zhao is a clone implanted with the memory of a female scientist in 1937. In order to stop the conspiracy, Lu Lin resolutely chose to let his consciousness be annihilated in thousands of timelines in exchange for a glimmer of hope. The story did not end here. When the surviving Shen Zhao reunited with Lu Lin who had lost his memory in the new timeline, he received a mysterious distress signal from deep space. The convenience store surveillance camera flashed again, indicating that everything was just the beginning of an endless cycle...