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Characters

• Lai Heung Wing (played by Anson Kong) — protagonist

  After spending more than a decade in Canada with his uncle, Heung Wing returns to Hong Kong when his mother falls into a coma. He has tried to suppress his childhood ability to see spirits, but appari...

• Tang Wai Lan (played by Bai Ling) — supporting

  Heung Wing’s mother, Tang Wai Lan, is found in a coma after inhaling smoke and suffering brain damage; the doctor says she has lost her tongue and cannot predict when she will wake. Her past fear and...

• Uncle Chung (played by Tai Bo) — supporting

  Heung Wing’s uncle took him away from Hong Kong after Tang Wai Lan’s fear and anger about the boy’s visions escalated. He later appears with Heung Wing in Ontario, explaining that his nephew collapsed...

• Young Heung Wing (played by Sean Wong Tsz-Lok) — supporting

  Young Heung Wing is shown in the memories that explain the adult Heung Wing’s childhood visions. His mother initially regarded the visions as a gift, but later blamed him for the hardship they faced a...

• Yu (played by Wesley Wong) — supporting

  Yu is a young boy who, like Heung Wing, can see things other people cannot. He warns Heung Wing that people who reach the apartment building’s sealed seventh floor will die. His warning and the childr...

• Yu's Mother (played by Shirley Sham) — supporting

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Yu's Mother → Yu (mother)
• Tang Wai Lan → Young Heung Wing (Family Mother And Son) — Their childhood relationship shifts from Tang Wai Lan's initial acceptance of his ability to fear and blame, contributing to Uncle Chung taking him away.

  In Heung Wing's childhood memories, Tang Wai Lan believes his visions are a gift, then becomes fearful and angry and tries to make him stop seeing spi...

• Uncle Chung → Lai Heung Wing (Family Uncle And Nephew) — Uncle Chung removes Heung Wing from a painful childhood situation and later appears to care for him in Canada, although the final scenes leave the reality of that life uncertain.

  After Tang Wai Lan's fear and anger toward Heung Wing, his uncle intervened and took him away. Years later, Uncle Chung tells him in Ontario that he c...

• Tang Wai Lan → Lai Heung Wing (Family Mother And Son) — Their bond is strained by Tang Wai Lan's fear and anger about Heung Wing's visions. When she recovers, Heung Wing tries to prevent her from being drawn back into the building's ritual.

  The plot identifies Tang Wai Lan as Heung Wing's mother. She once believed his visions were a gift, but later blamed him for her hardship and tried to...

Story Analysis

A man returns to his childhood home and confronts visions, family wounds, and a ritual whose reality remains uncertain.

Plot Progression

1. A Return Haunted by Visions — Heung Wing returns to Hong Kong after learning that his mother is in a coma. At his old building, apparitions and a warning about the sealed seventh floor unsettle his attempt to deny what he sees.
2. The Missing Seventh Floor — Children's calls and security footage connect Tang Wai Lan to the forbidden floor. When police cannot find the corridor Heung Wing remembers, he is left questioning his own perceptions.
3. A Childhood Reopened — The returning apparitions bring back memories of Tang Wai Lan's changing response to her son's visions. Heung Wing also recalls that Uncle Chung intervened and took him away.
4. The Bargain and Its Aftermath — Heung Wing confronts neighbors and a Taoist connected to a ritual involving the building's children. A homecoming celebration becomes part of the bargain, before Heung Wing awakens in Ontario and the...