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Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now.

They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk amongst us.... In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an 11-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master's severed finger and reunite it with his body. Ren has 49 days, or else his master's soul will roam the earth forever.

Seventeen-year-old Li Lan lives in 1890s Malaya with her quietly ruined father, who returns one evening with a proposition - the fabulously wealthy Lim family want Li Lan to marry their son. The only problem is, he's dead. After a fateful visit to the Lim mansion, Li Lan finds herself haunted not only by her ghostly would-be suitor, but also her desire for the Lims' handsome new heir. At night she is drawn into the Chinese afterlife - a world of ghost cities, paper funeral offerings, monstrous bureaucracy and vengeful spirits.

Malesia, 1893. È una serata afosa e la giovane Li Lan siede nello studio del padre nel tentativo di rallegrarlo. Spirali di fumo si innalzano lente dalla pipa da oppio dell'uomo che, seduto nella sua poltrona di vimini, si lascia andare al vizio che li ha condannati alla bancarotta. I Pan erano una famiglia benestante della ricca città portuale di Malacca, ma da quando il vaiolo si è portato via la madre e ha lasciato sfigurato il padre, Li Lan sa di avere poche prospettive per il futuro.

Malasia, 1931. Ji Lin es una joven inquieta e independiente que trabaja como aprendiz de modista para ayudarle a su madre a pagar las deudas. Sin embargo, cuando anochece se interna por calles oscuras hasta llegar al salón de baile Flor de Mayo, donde enseña los ritmos de moda a estudiantes, oficinistas y a cualquiera que le pague unas monedas.