[1] It follows a group of schoolchildren who encounter spirits and other supernatural happenings in an abandoned wing of their elementary school.

At Ichogaoka Elementary School, on the day before summer vacation, a group of children accidentally break a small statue.

When the school day ends, Mika Shinoda, a second-grader, encounters a bouncing football while retrieving her paint set.

She follows the ball into an abandoned wing of the school, where, in the upstairs bathrooms, she is lifted into the air by an unseen force.

Kazuo arrives at the abandoned wing with a schoolteacher named Shinichi Komukai, but the two are unable to see the children pounding on the windows of the now-locked building.

Desks fall from the ceiling, but Aki protects herself, Shinichi and Kaori using a diagram of a magic circle torn from a book.

Elsewhere in the wing, Shota and Kensuke encounter Kuchisake-onna, while outside, Kazuo begins drawing a large magic circle using a line marker, and Yumiko assembles a group of bikers to search the grounds for the sacred object.

Shinichi and the children flee from the monster and find themselves at a door which leads to the dark pit that Aki fell down earlier.

In the mid-1980s, a schoolteacher named Toru Tsunemitsu began to share ghost stories with his young students.

[2] Tsunemitsu originally began his focus on ghost stories around town, but found an unusually large amount of them centered on school.

[6] David Kalat, author of J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond (2007), described the series as being "packed with two scoops of wild, surrealistic visions, but no real sense of menace.