During the Republic of China, during the Ghost Festival, a play for the "Ghost King of Yinshan" was being performed in the dim theater of Taiping County. It happened to be the birthday of Fang Jingru (Zhang Zijian), the director of the police station. The director's son sent people to disrupt the troupe and occupied the theater to celebrate his father's birthday. Just as everyone was immersed in the atmosphere of joy, a burning living person fell from the sky on the stage, which looked very much like the scene of the Ghost King being burned during the Ghost Festival. At the same time, the paper figurines and the Ghost King's tablets under the stage also ignited instantly, and people said that it was him who angered the Ghost King. Fang Jingru began to investigate the matter in anger, and Xu Sijiu (Liu Zhiyang), the owner of Fengtian Funeral Shop, was also forced to get involved. As the case deepened, the protagonist Xu Sijiu witnessed one tragedy after another, and finally found the answer behind it...