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.
周枫和林山是颇有造诣的喜剧大师，两人合演的《人生百态》等喜剧小品，深受观众的欢迎。有一天，周枫查出患了喉癌，手术后，嗓子再也不能发声了。周枫为此异常痛苦，在林山开导下，两人竟然用以前灌制的节目录音带欺骗观众，不料被发现后，被观众赶下台来。一次偶然的机会，周枫发现了哑剧小品的表演方式，他与林山重整旗鼓，勤学苦练，终于又可以登台演出了，不料周枫却突然晕倒，在幻觉中表演了人生最后也是最为精彩的一出节目。
