In the eighth year of the Republic of China, there was a severe drought in North China. The dry mountains and forests in Yanchuan County are lush and lush, but they have not produced new shoots or added growth rings for twenty years. After the fifth woodcutter disappears mysteriously, Shen Yan, the clerk of the Judiciary Office who is afraid of ghosts, takes Ah He, a powerful medicinal woman, and Chen Jiuquan, an old widower who only believes in corpses, into the mountains to investigate the case. They gradually discovered that it was not the trees that were cut down at night, but the shadows of the dead left behind in the world. Someone is using his forgotten name and memory to extend the life of a dying mountain.
