Shen Yan survives by imitating others, but due to a gambling debt, he is approached by Xie Lin's staff who asks him to reproduce the voice of the late singer Aluan.
Xie Lin, the man in charge who owns the largest earth building in the world, is obsessed with Aluan deeply. Shen Yan wanted to fool him, but because of a small move that looked like Aluan, he was detained in the building and became a "living double".
The earthen building was like an urn, trapping the two of them. The cause of Aluan's death, Xie Lin's paranoia, and Shen Yan's self-struggle are entangled in the circular corridor. When tongues of fire lick the wall, is it the phantom stand-in that burns away, or is it the shackles of each other?
"Above the Ashes" looks at how two people trapped in obsession rebuild themselves on the ashes.
