Lin Mo never thought that a picked-up copper pocket watch would completely tear his ordinary life apart. When the second hand reversed against common sense and the rent arrears were paid out of thin air, the delivery man in the community suddenly floated in mid-air. He knew that some things were out of control.
The black cat who can speak human language warns him "Don't touch that watch." The old photo from 1987 has a face identical to his, and his neighbor Lao Wangtou always stares at him from the dark with bleeding eye sockets. The whisper of the pocket watch is like a reminder - "Find all the fragments, or you will all die", and the first fragment is hidden behind the eyeless "girl" in the burning bookstore.
Time is not a linear river, but a wrinkled rag. Every step back creates deeper cracks, and every fragment awakens a more terrifying existence. When Lin Mo discovered that his melted shadow was transforming into an unknown form, he finally understood that the so-called "searching" was just the beginning of becoming "them".
