"Every year, for thirty days during the lunar seventh month, the
Chinese believe that the gates of hell are thrown open. Vengeful
spirits or hungry ghosts wander among the living, seeking revenge and
justice before the gates of hell are closed again for another year."
The eighteen years old Rosa Dimaano arrives in Singapore from
Philippines to give support to her family working as a maid in the
house of the artists of a Chinese opera troupe Mr. and Mrs. Teo on the
first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. She is welcomed
by the family and introduced to their friends and their retarded son
Ah-Soon. Later, Mrs. Teo advises her about their beliefs and how the
dead should be respected and honored along the seventh month. However,
Rosa sweeps their offer on the sidewalk breaking a basic rule and
offending the spirits, and she is haunted by ghosts everywhere. When
Ah-Soon calls her Esther Santos and she finds some belongings of the
unknown Esther in the house, she discloses a dark and scary secret
about the past of her masters