After slipping into a trance while transcribing Buddhist scriptures, the young aristocrat Iratsume ventures to a forbidden temple, inadvertently awakening the spirit of Prince Otsu, who was executed. Believing Iratsume to be a long-gone relative who witnessed his demise, Otsu's restless ghost is unable to find peace as he is tormented by the memory of the young woman's face, the final image he beheld before his death.