In Hewan Town on the middle reaches of the Yellow River, Chen Jiusheng inherited his ancestral business and became a corpse collector who respected the soul of the river and abided by taboos. The peaceful days were broken by a series of bizarre drowning cases. Three missing corpses, copper coins engraved with strange runes, and a mysterious note "Yellow River Sacrifice, Three Survivors" drew him into a taboo secret that had been sealed for centuries.
Grandpa's warning, the Lu family's secret actions, the diary of the missing corpse collector, and the half-submerged ancient altar, clues point to the "eyes of the river" deep in the Yellow River and the "Yellow River Festival" that can subvert the basin. In order to find out the truth, Chen Jiusheng joined hands with Su Qingyao, a graduate student in the Department of Archeology who was searching for his father's whereabouts, and drove the ancestral wooden boat "Du'e" into the forbidden area of Jiaolong Bay.
When a once-in-a-century flaw in the eye of the river appears, and the sealed river demon is about to appear, Lu Chengzong's obsession with "borrowing his life" leads to catastrophe. Chen Jiusheng used the ancestral river-suppressing mirror, the corpse-binding rope and the blood of the corpse-catcher as sacrifices. With the sacrifice of his grandfather and the help of his comrades, Chen Jiusheng embarked on the road of life and death to seal the river demon and protect the Yellow River.
This is an elegy about inheritance and sacrifice. The corpse collectors used their flesh and blood to fight against the ancient curse and human greed. Witnessed by the roaring Yellow River, they wrote a legend of respecting nature and protecting the tranquility of the river area. The lingering conspiracy at the bottom of the river and the strange incidents occurring one after another in various places also indicate that this battle for protection is far from over...
