20世纪初，京剧旦角演员吴玉琴（辛柏青 饰）风流倜傥，飒爽英姿，倾倒一方众生。当年他曾和师范学校女学生罗缃绮（黄奕 饰）有过一次邂逅，谁知却由此注定了自己悲剧一般的人生。多年后二人重逢并坠入爱河，玉琴更接受爱人的建议更改艺名为秋海棠。谁知大军阀袁宝潘（王学圻 饰）早已相中缃绮，几番周折后有情人失之交臂，缃绮嫁给了军阀。婚后二人重逢幽会，为袁宝潘获知，遂残忍对秋海棠毁容，并企图烧杀这位名伶。侥幸逃脱的秋海棠忍辱负重，独自抚养女孩海宝长大。而原本以为爱人早已死去的缃绮，却在不知情的情况下与女儿相遇……
Two criminals attempt to rob a local pawn shop. When their planned robbery goes awry and a gang of criminals find themselves injured with a resilient young female hostage in tow, they take refuge at a remote farmhouse to try to let the heat die down. But what they discover there is far more menacing. The Price We Pay is the latest slasher-action thriller from a Japanese director, Kitamura Ryuhei. Of the film Kitamura has remarked, “It is a film of two hands. On the one hand it is a gripping action/thriller, but on the other hand it is an intense, terrifying experience immediately grabbing the audience and sending them on a wild ride.” As he indicates, The Price We Pay is a perfect film for the midnight audience who are thirst for bloody horror.
影片围绕朱莉娅·西姆斯，因为残酷的创伤而落入一种非常规的治疗来恢复自己。