When a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, bringing the dead with him. As these spirits wreak havoc across the Vietnamese-Australian community in Melbourne, reclaiming lost loves and exacting revenge, young woman May Le must rediscover her true heritage and accept her destiny to help bring balance to a community still traumatized by war.

Lennox Crawford - the successful novelist - is stuck. Choosing to go on a writing retreat to discover some lost passion in the hope it will allow him to bring a major chapter in his life to a close; his novel series. However, as some chapters close, old chapters thought buried find a way back, bringing with it more than just an old flame for writing and his wife is none too pleased