尹智姬(金圭丽饰)从小自焚开始痴迷于巫术。在认识到可以利用男人得到想要的东西的事实之后，她开始通过整容改变长相，甚至伪造姓名、学历、身份，过着完全不同的生活。在这种情况下，尝到权力滋味的尹智姬终于陷入了要将大韩民国掌握在自己手中的野心之中，PD郑贤洙(安内相)和报道记者们在追踪迅速跃升为大选候选人的检察官出身的政治人物金硕一和她的过程中，对两人之间可疑的连接环节产生了强烈的疑惑，但越是接近可怕的真相就越是危险。。。。。。
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.
根据李佩甫的小说《无边无际的早晨》改编。40年代一个大年初一的清晨，大李庄村长老黑埋葬了一具女尸，并收养了女尸旁边的男婴，给孩子取名“治国”。勤奋的治国考上了县中学，“文化大革命”时期他带头闹事，被老黑一巴掌打回了大李庄。后来，他考上了省委党校大专班。毕业后，回来当了乡长，因大李庄的计划生育拖了全乡的后腿，他训斥了老黑。不久国家扶贫铁路要穿越大李庄的祖坟，老黑和村民以死相维护，治国说服了大家，带头挖了自己母亲的坟。数年后，治国当上了邻县的县长，临行前，老黑给他送来了“老娘土”。
