A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.

Tsugumi, who works at an interior design firm, has an unexpected encounter with her first love from high school, Itsuki, at a dinner with her client’s whole comp any, an architectural firm. Seeing Itsuki, who is a registered architect with a first-class license and is quite charming, brings back the faint memories from high school. In the middle of dinner, he quietly slips away and begins to head home, getting into a wheelchair. “You didn’t know? Itsuki was in an accident in college, and he can’t walk.” Tsugumi, her pulse racing, takes a step back and thinks to herself, “I can’t love someone in a wheelchair. It’s just not possible to date someone like that.” But when she accepts the reality of the situation and interacts with Itsuki, who struggles but fights to survive each day, she becomes overwhelmed with emotions that she has kept since her youth.

新泻县系新泻市，狂风暴雨之夜，一辆轿车飞驰冲入大海，车上两人一死一生。死者是当地某老店老板白河福太郎（柄本明 饰），幸存者则是其年轻貌美的妻子球磨子（尾野真千子 饰）。球磨子个性张扬跋扈，又有着灰暗的身世背景，加上她此前曾为丈夫购买了高达3亿日元赔偿金的保险，因此从警方到社会各界一致认定她是为了保险金而亲手杀夫的恶女。开庭之前，球磨子的律师小原（龙雷太 饰）不慎骨折，小原只得委托刚好从东京来这里暂住的弟子佐原千鹤（常盘贵子 饰）担当球磨子的辩护律师。一个是心思缜密、恶德无两的鬼球磨，一个是天然纯真、对生活完全没有计划性的萌女律师，案情朝着不可预测的方向发展……
本片为日本著名推理作家松本清张去世二十周年特别企划作品。