大宅憩园易主，姚国良一家迁入。良任由亡妻母亲娇纵儿子，继室万婉华虽不满，却束手无策。夫妇俩偶憩园旧主人杨梦痴父子，得悉痴遭遇悲惨，正因童年被溺爱，华趁机促良反省，好好教导儿子。
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.
美籍华人于美珍 廖柏兴夫妇到香港投资，遇到美珍昔日情人林建业，共同寻找二十年前的女儿邓雯雯，从而透视出香港回归前夕港人的种种心态，折射出海外华人血浓于水的爱国情感
