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Hong Kong, 1953. Mei is a young refugee of the Chinese Communist Revolution scraping out a living as a traditional paper-cutting artist. But paper art is not her only gift; she also has the ability to speak to ghosts, an ability that she has striven to bury. When she receives an invitation – to take part in a competition pitting six spirit mediums against one another – she has every reason to refuse. Except that the hostess is none other than the wife of the man who once destroyed Mei’s entire life. The winner is promised a fortune, but there is only one prize Mei wants: Revenge.

Decades later, that competition has become an infamous urban legend: the police were called to the scene of a brutal massacre but found no evidence, dismissing it as a collective hallucination. Mei, now elderly, knows what she saw, she just doesn’t quite know what she did. Realizing this is her last chance, she returns to Hong Kong in the hope of uncovering the truth at last — even if the ghosts of her past are waiting for her there….