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Xu Nian, a mortuary makeup artist, suffers from severe insomnia due to long-term exposure to corpses, with the whispers of the deceased lingering in her hallucinations. Desperate for "silence," she bought a supposedly "city’s quietest" old apartment at half price. But her neighbor Uncle Chen starts morning exercise every 5 a.m.—slamming doors like hammer blows, shouting opera-like chants that shake the windows. After 72 sleepless hours, she sees hallucinations of the dead she’s made up, all pointing at Uncle Chen’s door: "It’s him." On the fourth dawn, Xu Nian holds her work scalpel and trembles as she knocks on his door. But when the door cracks open, she finds Uncle Chen hugging a white-cloth-covered photo frame, eyes red: "Girl, my wife died last night. I made those noises because I was scared my crying would wake you…"
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