Ji Lin is an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dance-hall girl to pay her mother's mahjong debts. When one of her dance partners leaves behind a gruesome souvenier, Ji Lin plunges into a world of secrets and superstitions. Eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy Ren is trying to find his master's severed finger and bury with his body, or his master's soul will wander the earth forever. As both young people go on their quests, unexplained deaths plague their district in 1930s colonial Malaysia.
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