A poor Chinese laborer learns important lessons after his son gets a strange new toy.

Yang Chen and Lin Xin Ya are both TV reporters of the same station and also a pair of lovers. During their cold war period, both of them have been assigned a case to interview a murder in a motel. Unexpectedly, a series of murder happened. When both of them is getting close to the truth, they are slowly suck into the supernatural world.

In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by the most tragic famine in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.