Chen Muba, the night shift security guard at the funeral parlor, was called his son by the deceased every night. The next day, the whole village knelt down and begged him to quell the evil spirits. He didn't know why he was recognized by the undead, nor did he know that the burned corpse had already opened its eyes under the tiles of the ancestral hall. The 'Ninth Man' in Lin Laizi's drunken words, the blood talisman hidden under the pillow by Aunt Zhao, and the hand pulling him to the ground in Xiao Huai's painting - all point to a taboo: he is not a living person, but the son of the Yin Vein that has been sealed for hundreds of years. When the village chief raises the torch, when Judge Zhou reveals the ultimatum, and when Xiaohuai finally calls out 'brother', there is no way out between Yin and Yang.
