At midnight, a radio begins playing a dirge no one requested. In the factory dormitory, Bai Xiao is startled to discover she can see ghosts drifting through the air.
Forced into a haunted-house murder case, she realizes that every time she speaks with a restless spirit, she coughs up blood flecked with gold dust. Is this life-threatening third eye a curse or a blessing?
When the red-clad ghost falls to her death for the seventh time in the old apartment block's endless loop, Detective Captain Shi Yi presses his gun to her trembling lower back:
"Comrade Bai, care to explain why you're always at the crime scene?"
Forced to work together, one spends her life force to break the deadlock, while the other tracks killers through murder cases. Amid the eerie mists of the 1980s, they tear away the masks of monsters and demons.
From the steel mill to the state-run department store, from the graveyard hill to Haunted House No. 28, the timid girl of the past walks a tightrope between the worlds of the living and the dead, tempering herself into a blade of thunder at the edge of life and death.
Who says a scaredy-cat who sees ghosts can't become a blade that cuts down evil?
