Seventy-year-old Sichuan grandmother Tang Guiying carried a bag of cured meat to the city to visit her granddaughter Lin Xiaoman, only to find that the once sensible and filial granddaughter had been infected with a virus and turned into a bloodthirsty zombie. When others saw Xiaoman's green face and fangs, they fled in panic; Tang Guiying, however, insisted that her granddaughter was only sick and hungry. When Xiaoman pounced to bite people, she slapped her back and stuffed a sausage into her mouth; when Xiaoman was covered in a rotten stench, she boiled prickly ash and ginger water for her to soak her feet; to prevent her granddaughter from biting people randomly, she put a yellow helmet on Xiaoman and forced her to eat vegetables, bask in the sun, and dance square dances.