The 50°C days turn the city into an inferno. Shen Wei flees with Lele to an old family home deep in the mountains. The well water carries a strange, fishy stench, and the diary her grandfather left behind conceals a charred fragment of a map.
Her unfaithful husband is on his way, following her trail with his new lover and cruel mother-in-law. But more terrifying than human malice are the inhuman howls that rise from the mountain stream each night. What, exactly, is the barrier she has built meant to keep out?
