讲述清末民国初期一位在省城上学的大户人家少爷因姐夫暴毙火速赶回家奔丧，夜里在回家路上于树林中搭救一姑娘，后发现姑娘长相貌美遂将其带回自己府内做丫鬟，伺候爹妈。该女子名为丽娘，少爷与丽娘日久生情，大婚之夜，丽娘被一厉鬼鬼上身，家里请来道士降服厉鬼，并将厉鬼封印在镜子之中，但这只是所有恐怖灵异事件的开始，佛堂祭奠的神秘之物，家中老爷的恐怖叫声，府中人的离奇之死，所有发生的一切将揭开一段鲜为人知的前朝旧事。
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.
