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When novelist Hyun-soo moves to a new place, he is suddenly visited by a strange woman who says that she used to live there. Hyun-soo and Jeong-yoon discuss a movie Jeong-yoon plans to make, but this results in them breaking up and say their goodbyes. A stranger named Yoon-joo tells Hyun-soo a secret about his dead wife So-young, and he decides to go explore her past. Novelist Jeong-yoon goes to meet Yoon-joo, the person she based her novel on, in order to finish some business. They are all wandering, in her memories, in his novel and in their movies...

气质不俗的美穗（刘嘉玲）虽只是一名普通的化妆品销售员，却有满怀抱负，当生活中遭遇不顺心的事时，一想起一表人才将来定会出人头地的男友比尔（黎明）就会重拾信心。但比尔空有经济头脑始终寻不到机遇，辛苦多年仍是普通小职员一名，终令美穗彻底失望离他而去。数年后，比尔功成名就，也有了名叫雪儿（舒淇）的影星女友寄放感情。比尔和美穗又在东京相遇时，比尔发现自己仍深深爱着美穗，但此时美穗即将与江湖老大“和平哥”结婚。为了不让遗憾再次发生，比尔放下雪儿开始与“和平哥”展开爱情竞争，却也没能将美穗挽留。比尔伤心之际，发现真爱（ANN LEE）其实一直在身边。

在停电期间，两个陌生人讲恐怖的故事。弗雷德（Fred）和范妮（Fanny）对故事的投入越多，他们在Catskills小屋中的故事就越生动。当弗雷德面对他的终极恐惧时，现实的恐惧就显现了。