“Ghost Woman” possesses the ability to see death signals. Since her cornea transplant from a death row inmate, she regularly sees specks on creatures close to death. Her eyes are the unfortunate eyes of death.
Struggling with vision problems, a frustrated writer Ye Shengqiu, in desperate need of new creative material, takes on an investigation prompted by an anonymous letter from the “Ghost Woman”, and he reopens the books on a thirty-year-old series of unsolved poisonings.
Meanwhile, closeted nonbinary high school student Hua Baiyue stands patiently by the seaside, As if waiting for Ye Shengqiu. Slowly, Baiyue draws Ye Shengqiu into a mysterious family determined to conceal the truth.
Baiyue’s complex familial ties and a spate of recent poisonings on campus resonate with eerie similarity to the poisoning incident thirty long years ago… As the intricate narrative unfolds, Ye Shengqiu senses the “Ghost Woman” may indeed be alive in their very midst!