时装设计师林惠民（林子祥 饰）获邀前往美国做一场时装展，他同时亦邀请了此前合作无间的模特徐竺筠（张天爱 饰）参加时装展。出身中国的他想在时装展上加入中国的元素，于是决定加入广东手托木偶这一概念。在一次制作木偶时，林惠民忽然被木偶击昏，恍惚间，他看到了一起26年前的谋杀案。由于这一事件过于诡异，赞助商施继豪（谢贤 饰）要求林惠民停止制作木偶以免再生意外。但林惠民没有答应，继续赶做木偶。几乎一模一样的情形下，林惠民再次被木偶击昏，这一次，他清楚看到了26年前的秘密。

When a man is hired to enhance a fashion show, he decides to go to a puppeteer and use Chinese puppets as accents to the models and the clothes. His interest in the show becomes a personal one when he meets one of the models and romance blossoms. An old woman loans him her antique puppets on the condition that he not keep them in the house with him, or grave misfortunes will result. As one might expect, he ignores the warning and then starts to experience a few accidents and unusual occurrences - including being knocked out by what he thought was a puppet, and seeing flashes of a murder while he was unconscious.