After an intense year of study at Harvard University, Greg Wang has returned to his family home in the sunny Los Angeles suburbs. Alongside his cousin Ling, his father Simon and his Grandma Moh, he's looking forward to three months of blissful relaxation.However, his father has other plans for him. In the heart of the city, a museum in possession of two ancient Chinese mummies are preparing for a grand exhibit, and Greg's father has secured him a job as part of the exhibit installation.At first, Greg loves his new job. It's fascinating, enjoyable and mystifying. But things take a darker turn when it turns out the mummies aren't all they appear to be. Left alone with them at the museum laboratory, Greg discovers a horrifying secret about the bizarre, centuries-old humans. It seems that the mummies aren't long dead after all. There's something still alive inside them. With the help of his cousin Ling and her new boyfriend Cole, the three must fight to lay the mummies to rest once and for all. The group must draw upon cultural Chinese traditions in order to send the mummies back to the afterlife. What do they want? Why have they returned? Greg finds out the hard way that even after two-thousand years, a longing for love and power can be strong enough to revive the dead.