After being laid off, Chen Yan returns to his village to tend the family graves. He wakes up petrified, transformed into a mountain god statue. He can't move or speak, but he can hear every visitor to the mountain's innermost thoughts. A swindler comes to mooch off the offerings? He'll show him what it means to have his knees go weak. A corrupt official comes to pray for wealth? He'll make him so anxious he falls to his knees. An honest old man comes to shelter from the rain? He'll make sure he's got all the medicine he needs. Chen Yan plans to keep his head down and save up incense offerings, but in the abandoned mine to the west, something is learning to cry like a human...