Lin Shen, a down-and-out violinist, accepts a mysterious commission to make a living and sneaks into an abandoned concert hall that has been abandoned for a century. Whenever the clock strikes midnight, the unfinished "Ninth Movement" by the talented composer Jiang Lin will be eerily heard in the hall. On the night of its premiere thirty years ago, Jiang Lin disappeared out of thin air and the score was stained with blood. Lin Shen discovered a password in the music score and accidentally triggered a curse: anyone who continues to write the music will become deaf and self-destruct. When he found Jiang Lin's skeleton in the basement, he actually caught a glimpse of the client's face in the deceased's memory illusion...