On a country road, Hideki tells his wife Ayaka that he needs to use a payphone. While his wife chats happily with their five-year-old daughter Nana in the car, he's fiddling with his laptop in the phone booth when a newspaper page flutters near him. He notices a photo on the front page, which shows Nana. Intrigued, he reads the article that says his daughter was killed at 8:00 PM. He glances at his wristwatch—it's almost 8:00 PM. He looks at his car. His wife climbs out of the car, calling out that she couldn't unlock their daughter's seat belt. As his wife takes another step towards him, a truck smashes into the car behind her, killing Nana. While the emergency services and police swarm around the accident site, Hideki looks around for the newspaper page as Ayaka tearfully tries to stop him.
Three years later, Ayaka has long since divorced with Hideki. Ayaka meets a psychic to learn more about "the Newspaper of Terror". The psychic shows fear and hesitation before admitting a lawyer had contacted her about the newspaper, but disappeared shortly after. After the interview, Ayaka receives a phone call from the psychic, who warns her that Ayaka can no longer escape "it". Ayaka rushes to the psychic's house, and finds a library of journals and photos of the foreshadowing newspapers. Ayaka searches the house, and finds the psychic face-down, surrounded by more polaroids with one gripped in her hand. Ayaka tries to shake her to awake but realises she's dead. She pries the photo from the dead woman's hand and stares in shock. She calls Hideki, whom she divorced a couple years before, to meet with him, but he refuses to meet with her as he frantically believes she'll call him insane again. |