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.

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.

Legendary story from classical novel Water Margin about Wu Song's Revenge.