蒲剧是流传在山西的一门独特戏种，其中血彩是蒲剧中最令人击节赞叹的绝活。所谓血彩，即是演员表演是在嘴里含一口血浆，然后用气上顶，令血浆从眼耳鼻口中喷出，造成七窍流血的惊人视觉效果。美丽女孩晗玥（刘庭羽 饰）是血彩艺术的唯一传人，她从小跟随师父碧洛（王芳 饰）学习。碧洛多年来忍辱负重，一心要将血彩推广发扬。近一段时期团里准备进京汇演，碧洛想尽各种办法要让徒弟抓住这次机会，可是晗玥始终未能掌握血彩的本领，团里最终决定将血彩从汇演剧目中拿下。这一事件给碧洛造成莫大的打击，她日渐乖张的精神状态引起了晗玥的担忧。 仿佛被血彩诅咒了一般，师徒二人的精神状态相继走向崩溃的边缘……
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
