根据BBC1968年同名电影改编,低沉压抑的情节,浓重的画面。大段大段的回忆与空白。老人一个人在旅馆,在沙滩。他二十岁,她十九岁时结下姻缘;她精神崩溃,住进了一个像asylum的地方,他却还在他们一起的回忆里,孤独地无法前行…但是等一下,究竟是谁要崩溃?老人一个人在床上,对面架子上的石膏雕像;老人起床,将雕像的面孔扭开;老人一个人在床上,有人在门快疯狂……Please don't do this!他喊道。十只手指在门缝跳舞。第二天……After placing his ailing wife Alice (Gemma Jones) in a care home elderly academic James Parkin (Sir John Hurt) goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. Walking on a deserted beach he finds a ring with a Latin inscription,which translates as "Who Is This Who Is Coming". He takes the ring back to the hotel but at night he hears loud banging on his door, even though he is the sole guest, as well as seeing a white-clad apparition on the beach. He is seemingly the victim of ghostly revenge. But who is the avenger?