The movie is about a psychologist, Tuong Minh who provides psychotherapy to An Nhien, a young female writer suffering from anxiety disorder. Nhien states that she’s obsessed by a certain girl. Strangely, the girl she mentioned is the main character in her first novel, The Whispering.

Detective Kien investigates a headless body found in a rural Vietnamese village during the Nguyen Dynasty. As supernatural elements emerge, he faces chilling twists in this 19th-century mystery.

当村长死去的女儿复活，一个遥远的村庄开始发生一系列难以解释的失踪及死亡事件，意外揭开村中森林恶魔的惊人秘密，以及让村长家族兴盛的活人祭祀仪式…。