Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, 26 Feb 2012. Returning home late one night from work, insomniac Hao Dong (Huang Xuan) again sees a young woman, whom he's nicknamed Moon (Zhou Chuchu), painting a ghostly portrait in the flat opposite. Suddenly, she's attacked by a masked figure and thrown off her balcony; but when Hao Dong calls the security guard, her body has disappeared and the flat is vacant. The next day, Hao Dong visits his girlfriend Yifan (Fiona Sit), a psychologist who also has her own radio show, and unburdens himself to her. She says he's over-tired from too much work and too little sleep. With a few days free, he visits his birthplace, Nine Mile Village, to see his uncle Feng Suanshu (Tao Hai), a teacher who still lives alone. The village is depressed, its young people having left for studying or in search of work. That night, haunted by more nightmares, Hao Dong goes for a walk and sees a young woman murdered in the village's rundown ancestral hall. Waking up, he finds he's still in Yifan's office, where he fell asleep. He tells her he first saw Moon a month ago, after returning from his grandmother's funeral in the village. She reminded him of a young woman, Luo Xiaoyue (Zhou Chuchu), who came to the village when he was a boy with her agro-scientist husband (Xu Haiwei) to do some research. After the husband drowned in the river, Xiaoyue was later found murdered; Yuan Er (Shang Daqing), the hoodlum brother of the village head (Cai Wei), was suspected but the case was never solved. Suspecting a psychological link between Xiaoyue and Moon in Hao Dong's mind, Yifan goes back with him to Nine Mile Village to piece together the mystery.
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