Crematorium worker Old Cao uses his line of employment to run a side business in “ghost wives,” the arrangement of posthumous marriages so that those who died single might not be alone in the afterlife.

 

After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, the unmarried Cao finds a ghost wife for himself in an unidentified woman whose body turned up on the shore of the riverbank. However, when the woman’s sister Azhu comes looking for her, Cao finds himself torn between his lies and an unlikely friendship.