In 1934, on a torrential rainy night, a fire broke out in the century-old theater "Zuixiantai" in Qinghe Town. The famous actress Du Liniang was killed in the flames, leaving behind an unburned human skin playbill. Ten years later, reporter Shen Mo came to the town to investigate a bizarre murder case and found that the deceased's forehead was engraved with the same gongchipu symbols as those in the playbill. What's even weirder is that all the people who came into contact with the case began to have half-face makeup on their faces - the left face was heavily painted, and the right face was sore and broken. As Shen Mo investigates deeply, the sleeping ghosts of the troupe gradually wake up