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.
故事发生在1970年代未,正在神女峰写生的女画家赵欣(何玲 饰)发现有人斗殴,忙向公安局报案。当夜,侦察员姜涧(张国民 饰)、覃南(赵守凯 饰)在崖下发现了陶荣荣的尸体。陶母因骄纵儿子导致其犯罪而不敢认领尸体,不得已,姜涧只好把破案希望寄托在目击者赵欣身上,通过耐心启发,赵欣终于为破案提供了线索。一个偶然的机会,吴新竹(侯克明 饰)发现岩洞中藏有一套价值连城的古书,不料被尾随而至的陶荣荣发现,两人发生打斗,吴坠崖侥幸不死,后被认为疑犯而受关押,真正的凶手则想杀死姜涧携书外逃。姜涧在神女峰下与之进行殊死博斗,最终,这套完整文物重新回到人民手中......