American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。乐观开朗的诗燕,喜欢中国传统功夫,是王名扬的学员之一,梦想着开一家武馆。两人在学武的过程中互生爱慕,过着幸福甜蜜的生活。
王名扬不甘心做一名武术教练,想通过攀登至今无人问鼎的梅里雪山最高峰卡瓦格博,以网络爆红的方式名扬天下。诗燕因患有子宫肌瘤和乳腺纤维瘤想和王名扬说,但始终没有说出口,借口说卡瓦格博峰太危险,劝阻王名扬不要去登顶。但王名扬和直播公司签了登山的“生死协议”,俩人因“放弃理想就是不喜欢”这样捆绑式的爱情没有意义发生争执。王名扬出发时,诗燕还是没有说出自己内心的隐情,诗燕进行了子宫和右侧全乳切除手术,从一个爱笑的女孩变得越来越自卑而不敢去爱。。