A broke young theater director returns to a shuttered, supposedly haunted playhouse to save his troupe by staging Pao-chuan, the Taiwanese _gezaixi _opera his father abandoned years before. The theater is falling apart, the rehearsals are unraveling, and the rumors turn out to be true. Caisi, the quick-witted assistant who keeps appearing at his side, is the ghost of the theater’s former leading lady, dead for 18 years but still waiting for her final bow. Chen Ta-pu packs supernatural comedy and backstage romance into a warm fantasy about second chances, unfinished farewells, and love that refuses to leave the stage. Ivy Shao, Chu Meng-hsuan, and Cheng Jen-shuo star in a ghost story with laughter and tears—and a haunted theater waiting to live again.