Two friends work as cleaners whose jobs are to clean homes and places where people have died or dead bodies are found. One day, they are tasked with cleaning a house where there were three dead bodies inside. Their job is to clean the corpses that have rotted. When they arrived there, they found that there are strange things happening and then they discover a strange book.

　　As bacteriologist Lena (38) drives past a burning car, she hears a scream of a dying woman. Lena does not tell her boyfriend how much the incident distresses her, just as she does not talk about the stillbirth she recently had. Instead, she throws herself into her work, intrudes into the life of the deceased, begins an affair with the widower and gradually takes on the role of mother to their son. Her persistent insomnia causes her to lose control between dreams and reality. Finally she accepts the help of a whisperer and then finds her own way to cope with her loss

五個芭蕾舞者去參加比賽，卻遭遇公車墜毀，被困在一家偏遠旅館中，遭遇殺身之禍，必須用自己的舞技逃脫危機。

　　1941年，第二次世界大戰如火如荼。英國倫敦遭到納粹法西斯的毀滅性轟炸，成千上萬的人流離失所，更有無數兒童淪為孤兒。為了躲避戰火的蹂躪，陸軍軍官的妻子海倫·霍格女士（海倫·麥克洛瑞 Helen McCrory 飾）與伊芙·帕金斯（菲比·福克斯 Phoebe Fox 飾）帶著孤兒們登上列車，輾轉來到一處偏遠所在避難。經過長途跋涉，她們抵達目的地并被安排在臨時的占時軍隊醫院落腳。只不過它的前身這里正是那個黑衣女人橫行盤桓的Eel Marsh House。才脫狼穴，又入虎口，驚慌失措的女人和孩子們即將迎來比戰爭更為可怕的噩夢，惡靈的殺戮有序展開……　　本片根據英國小說家蘇珊·希爾（Susan Hill）的暢銷小說改編。