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Sixteen-year-old Wen moves to the factories of Gochan and assists her father in the medical clinic he runs there. A combination of her entanglement with Melik, one of the imported Noor workers; her strange encounters with the Ghost of the slaughterhouse; and somewhat heavy-handed race and class conflicts all boil over in this mostly intriguing, quasi-futuristic take on The Phantom of the Opera.