二十世纪四十年代，丢失于清朝光绪年间的十二生肖像中的其中三面在民间出现。广州不法古董商莫云天就私藏其中的蛇面像，只要找到猴面像和虎面像后，就可以高价卖给英国商人而获取暴利。 为了不让三件国宝流出国外，文物局侦察员马成和爱国义士金祥一直暗中跟踪私藏猴面像的通缉犯韩奎。韩奎的猴面像在广州车站被莫云天抢走后不久，莫云天就通过盗掘古墓找到了虎面像。正在莫云天喜庆之时，刚到手的虎面像却被韩奎暗中劫...
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.
