性情温顺的眼科医生善彩(金惠秀)发现丈夫与人偷情,忍泪带着女儿太秀(朴妍儿)离开家住进一间破旧的房子,并租下一处地方欲开私人诊所。温柔开朗的大男孩仁哲(金宋苏)是她雇请的室内设计师,两人短暂接触生出感情。 善彩的人生看似要得以改变,但一切不过是她刻意经营的假像,这假像又因一双被她偶然拾于地铁的被诅咒的粉红色高跟鞋更加扑朔迷离:学跳芭蕾的太秀也被高跟鞋深深吸引,母女争鞋时几乎成敌人;仁哲真心待她,却从没注意到两人温存时她那可怕的眼神。善彩已将高跟鞋视作她所执导、参演的人生大戏的一个重要道具。After finding that her husband is unfaithful and cheats her with a lover, Sun-jae moves to a decadent cheap apartment at Goksung Station with her daughter Han Tae-soo. While traveling home in the subway, Sun-jae finds a pair of red shoes and brings them home. Tae-soo becomes fascinated by the shoes, which brings greed and jealousy to whoever sees them, while Sun-jae has visions and nightmares with ghosts and blood. When her friend Kim-mi Hee steals the shoes, she has an accident and dies. Meanwhile, the architect decorator Cho-in Choi that is dating Sun-jae, researches and discloses that the mystery is related to a picture of 1944. His further investigation unravels the tragic fate of the original owner of the shoes.