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.

A story concerning the Chinese peasants during the transition period, and the victims of the economic wave during the period of China's reform and opening up.