China / 2024 / Fiction, Experimental / 15’0”I2505640
At the Ghost Festival, the dead have a chance to return to earth to explore their past lives. A drowned youth ghost receives a strange stone offering, so he follows the address on it to an empty inn from the river where he died. The innkeeper pretends he doesn't know anything about the stone, but he already recognizes that the ghost was actually his dead childhood sweetheart. He excitedly puts on lipstick, wanting to tell the ghost everything, but the sad past stops him. However, the ghost finds clues and learns that the stone is the sacrifice offered to him by the innkeeper, so the former lovers finally recognize each other. Through the narration of the innkeeper, the ghost seems to know about his death and his previous life as an LGBTQ person.
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