In the shadows of a bustling city, evil takes root in the strangest of ways. Chen Mo, a quiet female mortician at the city funeral home, is actually the last heir to an ancient lineage known as the “Sin-Burial Officials.” With her supernatural gifts, the “Soul-Cleansing Hands” and “Residual-Memory Sight,” she reads the dead’s final murmurs in their cold remains and senses marks of death that science cannot explain. She believes her only duty is to soothe restless spirits, until she meets Lin Xiaotian, a city homicide detective.