Are You Here (2015) — AI Story Visualization

Plot Analysis Summary

A group turns a supernatural game into a business and must confront the guilt and danger released by exploiting the boundary between the living and the dead.

Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases

The Board Opens the Door

Min and her friends use the Ouija board as a game until it identifies an unexplained seventh presence. They learn about a murdered girl and are warned that ending the session may be dangerous.

Key Events

• Ouija Game Begins — Min and her friends use a Ouija board for amusement and ask embarrassing questions. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung Location: Room
• The Seventh Presence — The board claims seven people are present although only the players are visible. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung Location: Room
• Murdered Girl Revealed — The friends learn that a girl was raped and murdered in the room the previous year. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung Location: Room
• Hands Must Stay Joined — The frightened players try to stop, but they are warned not to release their hands. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung Location: Room
• Boundary Between Worlds — A spiritual explanation states that the living and dead should remain separate. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung, Auntie Lan Location: Room

Min's Private Burden

Min discovers that she is pregnant by Lung and considers an abortion without telling him. Auntie Lan warns her about possible physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences.

Key Events

• Boundary Between Worlds — A spiritual explanation states that the living and dead should remain separate. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung, Auntie Lan Location: Room
• Min Discovers Pregnancy — Min discovers that she is pregnant by Lung and considers abortion without telling him. Characters: Min, Lung Location: Unspecified
• Auntie Lan Warns Min — Auntie Lan warns that abortion may bring physical and emotional suffering. Characters: Min, Auntie Lan Location: Unspecified
• A Possible Father — Auntie Lan suggests Lung may become a responsible husband and father. Characters: Min, Lung, Auntie Lan Location: Unspecified

Profit from the Unseen

The friends decide to commercialize the Ouija board's apparent accuracy through an online fortune-telling application. Min raises ethical concerns, but the promise of money persuades the group to continue.

Key Events

• The Application Plan — The friends decide to turn the board's apparent accuracy into an online business. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung Location: Unspecified
• Profit Over Doubt — Min questions the plan's legality and morality, but the others emphasize money and improved lives. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung Location: Unspecified
• Seeking Spiritual Legitimacy — The group locates the Master of Wisdom to legitimize the supernatural project. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung, Master of Wisdom Location: Unspecified
• A Passage Is Opened — Auntie Lan explains that the board and application opened a passage between living and dead. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung, Auntie Lan Location: Unspecified

The Cost of Awakening

The group seeks the Master of Wisdom to legitimize its project, but its actions open a passage between the living and the dead. Keung and Fun are killed as the supernatural threat intensifies.

Key Events

• A Passage Is Opened — Auntie Lan explains that the board and application opened a passage between living and dead. Characters: Min, Fun, Keung, Auntie Lan Location: Unspecified
• Keung Is Killed — Keung is killed after the group's actions awaken a dangerous presence. Characters: Min, Keung Location: Unspecified
• Fun Is Killed — Fun is killed as the supernatural danger continues to target the group. Characters: Min, Fun Location: Unspecified

Guilt Before the Reckoning

Min and Lung suspect that the murdered girl has returned for revenge and remember abandoning her after a drunken celebration. Auntie Lan explains how their past actions and supernatural experiments enabled the haunting, ending with an unresolved plea for protection.

Key Events

• Revenge Suspected — The survivors suspect that the murdered girl has returned to take revenge. Characters: Min, Lung Location: Unspecified
• The Abandoned Encounter — The friends remember encountering the girl after a drunken celebration and driving away instead of helping. Characters: Min, Lung Location: Unspecified
• Auntie Lan Explains — Auntie Lan links the abandonment and supernatural games to the spirit's return. Characters: Min, Lung, Auntie Lan Location: Unspecified
• The Spirit Threatens Them — The spirit threatens to come for Min and Lung next. Characters: Min, Lung Location: Unspecified
• Plea for Protection — Min and Lung beg Auntie Lan for protection from the approaching supernatural threat. Characters: Min, Lung, Auntie Lan Location: Unspecified
• Outcome Remains Unshown — The available events end before the final confrontation or its outcome is shown. Characters: Min, Lung, Auntie Lan Location: Unspecified

Story Breakdown

• Ouija Game Begins — Min and her friends treat the Ouija board as entertainment before its answers become disturbing.
  • Embarrassing Questions — The friends ask the board about classmates and teachers for amusement.
  • Seventh Presence — The board claims that seven people are in the room despite the visible players.
• Murdered Girl Mystery — The friends connect the room to a previous rape and murder and fear the presence behind the board.
  • Room's Dark History — They learn that a girl was killed there the previous year.
  • Dangerous Interruption — They are warned that releasing their hands may invite danger.
• Pregnancy Crisis — Min faces a personal decision about her pregnancy by Lung while questioning the burden placed on women.
  • Secret Abortion Plan — Min considers terminating the pregnancy without telling Lung.
  • Auntie's Warning — Auntie Lan warns about physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences.
• Fortune-Telling Business — The friends seek profit by transforming the Ouija board's apparent accuracy into an online application.
  • Online Application — The group develops a fortune-telling application based on the board.
  • Ethical Doubts — Min questions whether the project is illegal and morally wrong.
• Spiritual Passage Opens — The attempt to legitimize and exploit the supernatural project removes the boundary between life and death.
  • Master's Involvement — The group locates the Master of Wisdom as a spiritual representative.
  • Restless Presence — The group's curiosity, greed, and selfishness awaken a dangerous presence.
• Guilt And Revenge — The survivors connect the deaths to their earlier abandonment of the murdered girl.
  • Keung And Fun Die — Keung and Fun are killed after the supernatural presence is awakened.
  • Past Abandonment — The friends remember driving away instead of helping the girl after a drunken celebration.
• Unresolved Protection Plea — Min and Lung seek Auntie Lan's protection while the spirit threatens them and the final outcome remains unknown.
  • Spirit's Next Targets — The spirit threatens to come for Min and Lung next.
  • Final Outcome Unshown — The available events end before the final confrontation and its result.

Directed by

Jil Wong Pak-Kei

Key Cast

• Jacqueline Chong Si-Man — Min
• Sammy Sum Chun-Hin — Lung
• Jumbo Tsang Suk-Nga — Fun
• Alan Luk — Keung
• Susan Shaw Yam-Yam — Auntie Lan