Chen Tianhong, the youngest son in a traditional Taiwanese family, flees to Berlin to escape the pressure and cruelty of his hometown, Yongjing. On this journey, as a young writer and gay man, he hopes to find understanding and acceptance.

However, in the end, Chen is forced to return to the one town he calls home, where his sisters await him: married, mad, or dead—along with painful memories. The story slowly unfolds, revealing the truth about what destroyed the Chen family and what drove the protagonist to commit murder.

Composed of echoes from the voices of the living and the dead, the novel «Ghost Town» weaves a web of family secrets and provincial superstitions, cultural clashes, and the quest to find one's own identity.