Wilderness Pursuit

Does the Miao people really practice voodoo?

Why are Lisu men impervious to blades and bullets?

Can the tattoo-faced Dulong people really speak with ghosts?

Blood poured over people during the Water-Splashing Festival, bodies crashing down during the Bridge-Drying Festival, more than a dozen people found dead and naked after the Hot Spring Gathering, the Firecracker-Snatching Festival, mountain god worship, the Three Spirits procession, climbing knife ladders, the Torch Festival...

As we explore the customs and traditions of ethnic minorities, behind each seemingly bizarre and eerie case, is it the work of angered gods and ghosts, or is someone else responsible?

I'm Bai Zheng, an orphan who grew up among many ethnic minorities. Let me tell you, through the eyes of a small-town police aide, about the only perfect humanity still left in this world, now on the verge of disappearing.