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.
杨帆和她的丈夫袁泳，还有饭馆服务员小方，从夜晚到白天，又从日光之下延续至一个个诡谲的深夜，他们彼此间发生的的故事，荒诞离奇，却又令人无比唏嘘，三人如共生关系般存在，如同齿轮间的相互羁绊却又无法离开对方，就像最简单的游戏：石头，剪刀，布无间轮回下去。
导演王建闯夜访荒村，从独守古村数十年婆婆口中得知贪念引发的灭村惨案：恶徒胡仁成夺金脉，毒杀恩亲、沉湖灭口，终被师兄德叔以命铲除。德叔以身堵泉，湖水重清。而讲故事婆婆正是当年发誓守护此地的德叔小徒弟——善恶有报，守护不息。
佛祖遣癫僧与金毛吼护送千年古镜回归离恨天，一人一兽却意外坠入镜中幻境。他们遍历千古奇境，在镜花水月的迷障中照见本心。当红尘执念化作云烟，疯癫与兽性终寻得内心至宝——原来生命最美的归途，不在离恨天上，而在照见本心澄明的那一刻。
