Between neon lights and steel beams, ancient masks have never faded. They have only found a new way to gaze upon the world.
Chen Sanxiao is a young man who runs a Nuo opera troupe on the verge of being crushed by the times, and gets mistaken for a comedy influencer on short-video platforms. He always thought the traditions he had inherited were nothing but outdated rituals and empty theatrics. That changed on a rainy night, when an uninvited guest arrived beneath the stage. In a voice unlike any human's, it demanded the ancestral Nuo mask said to be alive.