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August is Ghost Month in Taiwan - a time to commemorate the dead: Burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and prevent unlucky situations, large buys, and body of drinking water. Jing-nan, a young man who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei nights market, doesn't consider himself superstitious, but this August is going to haunt him whatever he does. He is stunned to the core when he learns his ex-girlfriend from high school has been murdered. She was found scantily clad and shot on the side of any highway where she was retailing betel nut products to passing pickup truck motorists. Beyond his harrowing grief for his lost love, Jing-nan is lost by the news. "Betel nut beauties" are usually ladies in the most eager of circumstances; the work is almost as taboo as prostitution. But Julia Huang had been the valedictorian of the high school, and the previous time Jing-nan spoke to her she was signed up for NYU's honor program, a long way away in New York. The facts don't accumulate. Julia's parents don't believe so either, and the police seem to possess closed the truth without requesting any questions. The Huangs beg Jing-nan to do some investigating on his own - reconnect with old classmates, decide if they can learn anything about Julia's life that she might have retained from them. Reluctantly, he agrees, for Julia's sake. But nothing at all can make him for what he learns - or how it will change his life.
