A wife yearns for complete independence from a narrow, restricting life in this slow-paced, undistinguished melodrama from mainland China, set in 1944-'45, in the midst of fighting. The young woman works at a good job, nurses her terminally ill husband, cares for her small child, and puts up with a difficult mother-in-law. Her desire to chuck it all is tempered by the need to take care of her family, and as China slowly heads toward the communist takeover in 1949, the chaos of the war around her further inhibits any impulse to go it alone.
A young girl, Suli, marries a young man, Zhengli. After the marriage, Su Li realizes that her husband is acting strangely, so she follows him to Zheng Li's former home and encounters a series of strange events. Finally, Su Li learns from her nanny, Wang Ma, that the house was haunted three years ago, and that Zheng Li's sister-in-law, Li Zhen, was forced by a ghost to hang herself from a beam, and that Zheng Li's brother came back as a madman. The day after Su Li learns of all this, the bookkeeper Lao Wang is killed again, and next, the nursemaid is also brutally murdered. Suli knows she is in danger and wants to leave immediately, but Zhengli does not agree. Suli is in danger several times, but fortunately saved, and finally finds the real killer, and kills him because he is full of evil!