Soi is a deaf-mute girl living in a remote village in Mekong Delta, Vietnam. On a boat there lives a stranger, Luu Huynh, who claims to be a shaman healer. He quickly wins the villagers’ attention and admiration after miraculously healing one of them. Huynh and Soi quickly fall in love and get married. However, Soi gradually discovers her husband's dark past and his desire for immortality that involves human sacrifice and the conjuring of the dead.