该片改编自同名小说，由《野兽》《救救我》导演金成洙执导，讲述为了给双胞胎弟弟的死报仇而自己进入少管所的双胞胎哥哥的故事。

拥有不堪回首过去的安藤满男（佐藤浩市 饰）一早接到同事宫下（鹤见辰吾 饰）的电话，得知医科大读书时的好友高山龙司（真田广之 饰）意外死亡。安藤为高山的尸体进行解剖，排除了自杀和他杀的原因，发现好友死于心肌梗塞。在警方的安排下，他见到了高山的情人高野舞（中谷美纪 饰），却听到了朋友因一卷录像带而丧命的说辞。安藤自然不会相信虚无缥缈的臆测，谁知几天后高山的前妻浅川玲子（松岛菜菜子 饰）和年幼的儿子也在车祸中死亡，损毁的车中破碎的录像机引起安藤的怀疑。未过多久，浅川的上司吉野（松重丰 饰）登门拜访，讲述了关于贞子和诅咒录像带的一切真相。安藤的命运由此发生改变……本片根据铃木光司的同名原作改编。

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.

女演員回國後住在朋友家，逗逗胖胖的貓咪，與想入行的表妹見面，還好像感到園裏的花跟她說話。男詩人獨居，女生來拍他的紀錄片，年輕男演員登門拜訪，詩人為了健康理由戒煙戒酒，但言談甚歡下又重拾杯中物。兩個平行小故事，都發生在一天內，看來無關又似有呼應，主角吃麵都愛加辣椒醬，也剛巧都有個不常彈的結他。洪常秀拍完《水中鏡花》（47屆），再次包攬編導攝影剪接美術和音樂，彷彿無招勝有招，讓金珉禧與奇周峯在各自的細碎生活對話裏，看來雲淡風輕，卻散逸魅力。