It is a mild winter and Martin has just settled into the isolated house that was his father’s. One night, at the edge of the woods, a strange man called Haruki appears before him. He invites Martin to lose himself in the forest in order to encounter a stranger. The stranger comes in the form of Yoshido, a peculiar Japanese filmmaker, who, assisted by Mathilde, is preparing to shoot a film based on Haruki’s unfinished novel La Vie lointaine.

A Washed up Filmmaker from the Silent Era needs a new camera for his final project, his first talkie that he wants to leave behind as his greatest work, his legacy. The camera is found at a strange second hand shop off the beaten path . Maxwell Stein decides this is the camera for him,however the camera has different plans for Mr Stein and the cast as this haunted film camera begins to take over.