Locked in a Mental Hospital, I Devour the Guards with Illusions

Shen An, locked away in Black Obsidian Psychiatric Hospital as a madman, devours the guards’ memories and sanity with his hallucinations every night. When the newly appointed doctor Lin Yuan tries to analyze him, she discovers that her own consciousness is being silently eroded. Chen Ya, a deaf-mute orderly, carves coordinates into the walls; Bai Tang, a sleepwalking poet, uses poetry as a key; and security chief Zhou Xiao struggles between loyalty and the annihilation of his sense of self. When the director, Mo Yan, appears as a hologram, the truth is revealed: they are all living test subjects in the Nirvana Project. Shen An is not a madman. He is a vessel for humanity’s collective fear, and Lin Yuan is the only other consciousness with whom he can coexist.