Do you believe that an object has a memory?
Shen Mo, a restorer of old paper bindings, received a batch of paper figurines from the haunted house of the Republic of China. Ever since he put the finishing touch on the most damaged one, strange things started happening in the studio: a paper man wandered around in the middle of the night in the surveillance camera, a phone call from twenty years ago came from the receiver, and the reflection in the mirror was always half a beat slower than his.
The visit of Lin Wan, a doctor of folklore, brought an even deeper chill. She found out that all the visions pointed to the oldest taboo in the papermaking industry - "Don't touch the eyes of a soul with unfulfilled wishes. If its resentment is attached to the paper, it will be replaced in the middle of the night." And the faces of each paper figure that Shen Mo repaired gradually moved closer to his.
As the investigation deepens, a tampered past comes to light: the disappearance of his twin brother twenty years ago, and the report record is completely inconsistent with his memory. When Shen Mo finally pushed open the dusty door of the basement of his ancestral home and saw the paper man exactly like himself and the childhood photos of the two of them clutched in its hands, a cold and bone-chilling truth suddenly came -
Perhaps, he is the work that was "restored".
