马修的弟弟汤姆（Tom）失踪后，他的生活遭受了毁灭性的打击。马修的父亲让他去照顾汤姆，现在马修感到很负责。他的父亲试图制止愤怒和责备，但裂缝开始显现出来。有一天，马修正在翻阅一盒关于汤姆失踪的新闻剪报和录像带。突然，他在其中一个录像带上听到幽灵般的声音，告诉他“你从来没有来过我！”。这是他失踪的兄弟的声音。他把录像带拿给父亲杰克。这次没有声音了，当伤口重新打开时，杰克大怒。马修向他最好的朋友西蒙介绍了录音带上的声音。他失去理智了吗，汤姆还活着还是死了？马修在家中播放录音带，再次听到汤姆的声音，拼命恳求帮助。然后马修看见汤姆在窗前，地。他冲向汤姆，可是没人在那里……马修与隔壁的邻居艾米（Amy）建立了友谊，艾米虽然美丽，但遇到了麻烦。他与她谈论汤姆，她建议他参观当地媒体。马修不确定，但他再次被汤姆的噩梦所困扰。当他试图入睡时，他反复做噩梦，说他被活埋了。无奈之下，他去了媒体中介梅利莎（Melissa），他告诉他该地区已经被诅咒了很久了。她的女儿给马修一件礼物，一个年轻女孩的画。第二天，马修发现西蒙的妹妹索菲（Sophie）被绑架，感到震惊。马修（Matthew）意识到媒体女儿的绘画是索菲（Sophie）的作品。困扰升级，马修的心态恶化。随着两人之间逐渐形成的恋情，只有艾米（Amy）似乎相信他。马修知道，如果他要挽救苏菲，就需要深入探寻汤姆失踪的根源。当他朝那残酷而令人毛骨悚然的真理猛扑过去时，没有回头路了……消失了……你无法掩盖过去。

  Matthew’s life is devastated after the disappearance of his younger brother, Tom. Matthew’s father had left him to look after Tom and now Matthew feels responsible. His father is trying to hold back the anger and the blame but the cracks are beginning to show. One day Matthew is looking through a box of press clippings and video tapes about Tom’s disappearance. Suddenly he hears a ghostly voice on one of the video tapes telling him “you never came for me!”. It’s the voice of his missing brother. He shows the tape to his father, Jake. This time there’s no voice and Jake flies into a rage as the wound is reopened. Matthew tells his best friend Simon about the voices on the tape. Is he losing his mind, is Tom alive or dead? At home, Matthew plays the tape and hears Tom’s voice again, desperately pleading for help. Then Matthew sees Tom at the window, gaunt and haggard. He rushes out to Tom but no one is there… Matthew strikes up a friendship with next-door neighbour Amy, who is beautiful but troubled. He talks to her about Tom and she suggests he visits a local medium. Matthew is unsure but he is again haunted by nightmarish visions of Tom. When he tries to sleep he has recurring nightmares that he is being buried alive. In desperation he goes to visit Melissa, the medium, who tells him that the area has been cursed through the ages. Her daughter gives Matthew a present, the drawing of a young girl. The following day Matthew is shocked when he finds out that Simon’s sister, Sophie, has been abducted. Matthew realises that the drawing by the medium’s daughter is of Sophie. The hauntings escalate, Matthew’s state of mind deteriorates. Only Amy seems to believe him, as a tentative romance grows between them. Matthew knows that he needs to get to the bottom of Tom’s disappearance if he is ever going to save Sophie. There is no going back as he hurtles towards the stark, chilling truth… The Disappeared…you can’t bury the past.