Twenty-year-old Mun has been blind since she was two years old, and is finally able to see again thanks to a corneal transplant. The return of her sense of sight takes getting used to, as she has to learn to recognize visually things she has known only in darkness, including her own face in the mirror.
This process is greatly complicated by Mun seeing people who shouldn't be there - a shadowy visitor to the old woman who shares her hospital room in the middle of the night, a man standing in the middle of the freeway, and so on.
As Mun's sight and understanding improve, the strange images persist - a sad little boy in the hallway, a mother and child, a little boy who was just hit by a car. And she sees more of the shadowy figure who came to the old woman at the hospital just before she died.
These spectres seem to want to communicate with Mun, drawing close to her like a moth to a flame. Mun realizes that the ghosts must need something from her, and that they will never leave her alone. She must track down the donor who gave her her new corneas in the hope that she can find out why she can see the dead, and how she can make it stop.
The Eye is one of the better entries in the Asian horror explosion of the early 2000s. Directors The Pang Brothers' use of surround sound and unsettling imagery are the highlight here. It's best experienced with the lights out and the sound system cranked up. If you can get past the subtitles and get into the film, The Eye is a scary one.
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