[Flaptekst]: When Lan, an adopted orphan, comes home to Shanghai after ten years in Europe, to try and locate her biological parents, everyone who could help is evasiveher identity is a mystery. Her only clue is cricket fightinga millennium-old Chinese pastime turned gambling racket where the nouveaux riches meet the underworld by night. The deeper she digs into her own mystery, the more obscure and sinister it becomes. The truth takes her by surprise: the past is unspeakably worse than she thoughtand now casts its shadow over the present.