Plot Summary
Young-eon (Kim Ok-bin), the top singer at an all-girls school, is murdered by a music sheet cutting her throat in the opening scene. The day following her death nobody can see or hear her except her friend Sun-min (Seo Ji-hye) who hears her. After Young-eon convinces Sun-min that it is her voice that can be heard the two attempt to find out what happened to Young-eon. Sun-min begins speculating that the music teacher must have killed Young-eon. The mystery behind her death is slowly unraveled as Young-eon has flashbacks of life before her death.
Seon-Min befriends a lonely and strange girl at school named Choh-Ah, who can hear the voices of the dead, and she helps the two solve the incident. Soon after, the music teacher kills herself. Sun-Min begins to doubt what Young-eon says after Choh-Ah tells her that ghosts only remember what they want to, revealing that Young-Eon's memory may be incorrect. There seems to be another ghost haunting the school, one that the two friends suspect must be Young-eon's murderer. Later, Young-eon's body is found in the elevator, the same elevator that a previous student died in. We learn that Young-eon was alive all this time in a sleeping state but died when a student accidentally dropped a cart down the elevator shaft onto her neck.
Young-eon is running out of time to discover who the other ghost is; if her friend forgets about her then she will lose her voice. Some of the flashbacks include her mother, who is shown to be in a hospital. In one flashback, she talks to her mother about how as soon as she is old enough she will learn to drive. Another features how her mother committed suicide by jumping off the top of the hospital. In the end it is revealed that Young-eon drove her mother to suicide. It is also shown that Young-eon might have multiple personality disorder caused by the stress of her mother's illness. We see Young-eon bring tears to her music teacher's eyes when she asks the teacher to sing, leading the teacher to contemplate suicide.
It turns out that Young-eon had been hearing the voices of her teacher and of the ghost, Hyo-jung, the whole time, and Young-eon wanted the teacher dead to get rid of Hyo-Jung's voice. Hyo-Jung was a student and a former top singer at the school. She fell in love with the music teacher. Hyo-Jung has the same voice as Young-eon and they are both recorded in a song.
We come to the conclusion that Hyo-Jung shot the music sheet at Young-eon throat in the first scene out of anger at losing her voice. Seon-Min thinks Young-eon should move on and "cross over". This angers Young-eon, since she wants nothing more than to live again. Not long after, Young-eon kills Choh-ah and takes over Seon-min's body. The last scene is of Young-eon in Seon-min's body talking to her reflection at her locker, and then walking alongside Seon-min's mother, talking about how as soon as she is old enough she will learn to drive.
At the very end of the movie (when the cast and actor's names appears) we can see Cho-ah shouting but voiceless.
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