When a ghost-hunter couple checks into the hotel where country musician Hank Williams died, they might end up having their first-ever experience with a paranormal entity.

A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai.

A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.