In a remote mountain village in South Korea, although life is not affluent, there has been a long-lasting peace, and people seem unaware of approaching danger. Everything changed one evening when a sudden murder occurred in the village, shattering its tranquility. Chonggu, who serves as a police officer in the village, and his peers quickly rushed to the scene to investigate. He initially deduced it to be a heinous murder, but locals privately speculated that a Japanese man, who had mysteriously appeared in the village's outskirts, was the prime suspect. This Japanese man was suspected of practicing some form of sorcery, cursing people to death through supernatural means.

The film tells the story of two exceptionally talented young magicians and close friends, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, during the Victorian era when magic was thriving. Due to mutual jealousy and suspicion, they become bitter rivals, using various means to prove themselves as the premier magician of their time.

On a pitch-black night, within an endless expanse of desert wasteland, a raging storm isolates a lone motel from the outside world. The road is impassable, and communication is severed. Eleven strangers, previously unfamiliar with each other, are forced to gather in this precarious, crumbling motel.

The film tells the story of a series of mysterious events, starting from the mysterious disappearance of the conductor's girlfriend to the encounters of his new lover in this mysterious house.

John's firefighter father, Frank, tragically died in a fire rescue when John was only 6 years old. Since then, John has repeatedly dreamt of trying to prevent that tragedy. His father's death left deep scars on his psyche, and even as he grew up to become a police officer, he found it hard to forget. On the stormy night before his father's death anniversary, John discovers an old-fashioned radio walkie-talkie his father used in his father's room. As he starts playing with it, to his astonishment, he hears a man's voice claiming to be firefighter Frank.