The film opens in a bleak police station where celebrated war correspondent Kate Rafter (Seagrove) faces questions from a psychiatrist, Dr Shaw (Kurylenko), as they work through the painful events of Rafter’s life. A horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother (Steed) have brought a haunted Rafter home to Herne Bay, a place she believed she had escaped forever. Her resentful sister (Friel) has not made her sister welcome and her forbearing husband Paul (Miles) fails to broker peace. Whilst packing up her mother’s belongings from her childhood home, Rafter comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.
大唐天宝年间，曹家村世代守护着一柄镇村宝刀。曹叔公欲将守刀人之位传给弟子，却左右为难：大弟子文远志大才疏，实力不足；二弟子文武沉稳可靠，却突患手抖之症，难以持刀。与此同时，各方势力早已对宝刀虎视眈眈，外有混混贼人明抢，内有村长暗中设局，宝刀甚至一度遭人调包。在种种艰难险阻之中，文远与文武将如何识破阴谋？他们又能否守住这柄世代相传的宝刀与家族使命？
