Fourteen-year old Bing-wing Chan resents his father, not only because the man gambles away all the family’s money, but also because he forces Bing to help him in his gruesome job. Ba is the bone collector, the one who digs up skeletons of deceased Chinese so that they can be sent home to China for permanent burial. Sinister things start happening soon after Bing acompanies his father to the graveyard.