The story takes place over three days and two nights and is woven together from four omnibus stories. The story begins with a novelist struggling to meet a deadline, a popular actor on a secret trip with his lover, a businessman who wants to quit his job after dealing with complaints, and a kidnapper who has held a hostage in a room, all gathering at a resort hotel.
A man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of a local serial killer. The detective investigating the murders looks to him for help in solving the case.
Lovely and sensitive Maud Ruthyn is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas, a charismatic rogue who stands to inherit the family fortune... should anything untoward happen to young Maud. With the tyrannical Madame De La Rougierre as her governess, Maud finds that the estate holds terrors beyond her imaginings.
Itsuki Shinonome is sent to the internet media department from a major newspaper. Chief Editor Kanji Usami assigns her a story involving green caterpillars being found in instant food. A man who posted about the caterpillars in his instant food on social media appears in front of her. A fight between companies eventually draws in Itsuki Shinonome.
A quiet residential area in Tokyo. Retired judge Isao Kajima and his family have a peaceful life until Shingo Takeuchi, an acquitted suspect in a murder trial that the judge once presided over, moves next door. Shingo smiles amiably, gives thoughtful presents, even helps care for the elderly. He wins the Kajima family's hearts with his exuberant good will. However, mysterious things keep happening in Isao's house...
When compulsive liar Sloane Caraway fibs her way into a nanny position for the gorgeous and charismatic Violet and Jay Lockhart, it seems she’s finally landed her dream job. But little does Sloane know, she’s just entered a household brimming with secrets that are about to explode — with potentially catastrophic consequences for all.
Ake, struggling with finances, lives with grandkids and Am. Krittiya shares a family curse tale, seeks Ake help due to his ancestral ties to rituals against it. Initially reluctant, Ake accepts for compensation. He starts the rituals and gets a golden box but witnesses misfortunes. Spirits appear, grandkids suffer, and Ake races to break the curse to save them.
The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: "Now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." (I Samuel, 8:5). And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king, Saul. Saul, however, has incessant doubts about his mission. The influential prophet Samuel turns away from Saul in order to select a new king according to God's will: David. He is still a young boy, tending sheep in the fields, when, secretly Samuel oints him as the next king of the Israelites.