Zhao Dachui is a veteran trucker who has spent fifteen years hauling freight over long-distance routes. Born with a pure yang fate and destined to suffer the Seven Killings, he has a pair of yin-yang eyes that let him see things others cannot. By chance, he obtains an ancient compass from Zhou, a widow and inheritor of Maoshan traditions, and from that moment sets out on a strange path along the border between yin and yang. The remote mountains of western Hunan, the treacherous roads of Sichuan and Tibet, the haunted roads of Yunnan and Guizhou... He measures the boundary between life and death by the turn of his wheels and uses his compass to tell the living from the dead. Follow this road, and it leads to a sunlit boulevard; fail, and it becomes a one-way trip to the Yellow Springs.
