Adapted from a famous ancient Chinese demonic story, “The White Snake” tells of a tragic romance of human male and female snakes. In a rainy day, a young man encountered by the lake two snake demons in the disguised form of a beautiful lady in white and her maidservant in green. Falling for the young man, the white snake tried to seduce him, who, despite the demonic/animal nature of his lover, chose to enjoy the seduction and keep the relationships together with the maidservant. The days of lust did not last long. A pang of sudden fear struck him one day, and he fled as fast as he could.

“The White Snake,” is divided into three parts— encounter, amour, and epiphany— so as to express a shift from the obsession of lust to the transcendence and enlightenment. This shift corresponds to the metamorphosis of the characters in the animation. All the characters, except the male protagonist, have the ability to transform themselves. Such transformation in shape was not just the original theme of demonic stories. Instead, it suggests the idea of inconsistency— not merely the inconsistency in the physical existence of objects but also that of earthly desire such as sexuality.