Dae-Su, en helt almindelig midaldrende mand, bliver kidnappet og låst inde i en celle uden en forklaring. Hans begær efter hævn mod kidnapperen, som har ødelagt hans liv vokser sig stærkere hver dag. Pludselig efter 15 år bliver han uventet sluppet fri med en fyldt tegnebog og en mobiltelefon. Han får fem dage til at finde ud af sandheden om, hvorfor han blev kidnappet og kræver hævn.
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
A destitute man ready to drown himself is rescued by a caring passing woman. Soon thereafter forgiven by his dying father, he inherits great wealth and becomes engaged to a society woman. When she only laughs at the poor on a slumming trip, he remembers his own past and the woman who saved him.