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.
12岁的玛丽埃尔一夜之间发展出了心灵感应的能力。她突然能够看到和听到父母在私生活中的所作所为——无论是白天还是黑夜。女孩原本如诗般美好的世界因此破碎，而父母也陷入了如何应对女儿这种全方位“监视”的困境之中。
