Siren

The film begins by noting the sudden disappearances of people that occurred in the Lost Colony in Roanoke, Virginia in 1590 and the ship, the Mary Celeste, in 1872.The film starts in 1976, the inhabitants of a solitary island of Yamajima seem to have dissapeared but searchers find one person who gives a mysterious warning: When you hear the siren, never go out.Thirty years later, Yuki Amamoto goes to the island with her father, a freelance reporter, and her little brother, Hideo, who appears to be mute.Though they are welcomed by a young doctor, Minamida, who shows them the island, all the islanders look creepy and unfriendly to Yuki. The house they live in has long been deserted, full of dust and old blood stains. Her neighbour, staying next door, helps her clean the house and gives her the same strange warning: When you hear the siren, never go out.Yuki then talks to the doctor asking if Hideo will ever recover. He tells her it takes time. It is the beginning of a series of mysterious incidents, as Yuki explores the island: A group of dancers in fancy clothes, mysterious scribbles on the walls of a ruined house, a diary from 1976, a suddenly deserted market, a pretty girl in a red dress standing on the hill who appears to be telling her brother a story. Additionally, the diary is of the survivor of the 1976 annihilation of villagers, containing the truth of the incident. It describes how the murders took place, but the diary missing pages as it appears to have been torn in half.After her father tells her he is going out to take pictures of the nocturnal animals, Yuki hears the siren for the first time.