Li Ergou is a coffin bearer who specializes in carrying coffins that are "not quite right".
The rules of the sect are iron-blooded: no coffins are carried at midnight, no coffins are carried in the rain, and women's coffins—never raise their heads.
When he was eighteen years old, he broke the precept for a corpse of a river-floating woman who "died while standing and clutching a red dress." On the night of carrying the coffin, red clothes loomed under the locust tree, and the companions drowned mysteriously within three days. The master tried his best to hold the coffin and gave a final warning: "There is something in the river looking for a substitute... It remembers you.
Intention: Coffin bearers, morticians... These "walkers in the underworld" who walk on the edge of life and death are often ignored or tabooed. The work will go deep into the inner world of this special group and show how they, as mortals, abide by ancient rules and maintain the last dignity of the deceased. In fear and awe, they complete the living's consolation to the deceased and respect for life itself.