洛哈特(戴恩·德哈恩 Dane DeHaan 饰)被派往位于阿尔卑斯山的一间疗养院中,接回在此疗养的公司CEO。在回程的路上,洛哈特遭遇了车祸,左腿骨折,无奈之下,他只得在疗养院中暂时停留养病。在疗养院中,洛哈特结识了神秘的少女汉娜(米娅·高斯 Mia Goth 饰)。 疗养院中诡异的气氛和洛哈特周围发生的接二连三的科学无法解释的事件让洛哈特开始对疗养院的经营性质产生了怀疑。汉娜和主治医生福尔摩(詹森·艾萨克 Jason Isaacs 饰)之间的暧昧关系更让洛哈特察觉到事件的不单纯。终于,洛哈特识破了隐藏在这间疗养院之中的秘密,与此同时,他的噩梦也开始了。
In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life: he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..
After being complicit in a costume joke that ends in a fatal accident and a pact of silence, a group of young people will be threatened by an anonymous writer who wants to reveal his dark secret. Their stalker threatens to post a bloody horror novel based on them on social media. Each chapter one of them will die. While distrusting each other, the group will begin a fight for s...