In the story, a female ghost waits miserably yet fruitlessly on the road to the netherworld for her lover with whom she had committed suicide several decades earlier. Then she returns to modern society, and with the aid of a pair of journalist lovers, finds her former lover whom she discovers did not die together with her, and is now white-haired, poor and down-and-out.
故事中，在黃泉路上苦等一同殉情數十年情人未果的女鬼，回到現代社會，藉著一對記者情侶的協助，找到當年的情人，卻發現故人當年殉情未死，如今卻已白髮蒼蒼、窮途潦倒。