During the Republic of China, a remote town struggled to maintain peace in the midst of war. However, on the night of July 15, commonly known as the "Ghost Festival", rumors of "hundreds of ghosts coming out of the grave" spread in the city. First, a villager gambled his life with a ghost at night, and an old man in the village came back to life on the seventh night. Even the mayor's house was plagued by serial murders caused by the "Five Evil Ghosts". As Inspector Han Ming investigates in depth, the case gradually becomes more bizarre - a blood spring gushed out of the well late at night, the owner of the coffin shop encountered a ghost when buying a coffin, and the old patriarch mysteriously burned himself in a deserted temple. The source of all this came from a mysterious opera troupe that came to the city that night...