Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters, each involved with a performance of the opera Fleeing by Night in a local theatre.
In the ancient city of Fengdu the shaman witch died of spontaneous combustion at the sacrificial ceremony and common people mistook it for a ghost..The two feel that things are not simple. The prince Song Jiuling and female detective Di Xiaosi, who came to investigate the disappearance case.
