After finding a mysterious ghost island, geologist Zhao Qiming leads a team to investigate the island's secrets. However, none of them survives in the mysterious place. 10 years later, Zhao Qiming's daughter Zhao Xueli is also a great scientist, who never gave up learning the truth about the ghost island and what happened to the scientific expedition team. At the same time, Du Zhe, a wealthy Southeast Asian businessman, wants the legendary meteorite, forcing Zhao Xueli to cooperate with him and form a scientific expedition team to go to the ghost island. Thinking it'd be just an ordinary adventure, they face an unprecedented crisis – the ghost island is inhabited by Jurassic dinosaurs.

In the mountains of Guizhou, quarry owner Yu goes to inform a woman, Maizi, that her husband is in a coma after a quarry accident. But Yu is attracted to the sensual, hardheaded Maizi, and concocts a story to make her think she is indebted to him. The entanglements that follow evoke some of the painful impacts of China's modernization.