THE SKULL ORACLE

Where history’s darkest secrets meet myth and magic — revealing the stolen skulls of Taiwan’s Indigenous people and a woman’s awakening to her ancestral shamanic powers.

During the Japanese colonial era in Taiwan (1895–1945), skulls were stolen from Wan-zhen’s great-grandmother Sayun’s village. Women in Wan-zhen’s family have suffered ever since. An emergency physician, Wan-zhen has also been troubled by a dream about a giant with a large phallus named Halus, about whom her great-grandmother had also dreamed.
Wan-zhen’s great-grandmother Sayun was born into a family of shamans but worked as an assistant and translator at a Japanese medical clinic, displaying intelligence and resilience. She fell in love with a Japanese man named Tanaka Eiichi but was forced to follow the traditional path of an arranged marriage.
A hundred years later, the old story from the Japanese colonial era unexpectedly resurfaces. Wan-zhen meets Mr. Tanaka’s descendant, Shinji. They feel a connection because of the love their grandparents had known. Their relationship is reparation for the tragic ending to Sayun and Eiichi’s romance.