Always Be with You

Always Be with You

Year: 2017

Runtime: 98 mins

Language: Cantonese

Director: Herman Yau

HorrorMystery

Taxi driver David receives a devastating terminal cancer diagnosis. After a car accident, he inadvertently kills hotel owner Patrick. Patrick’s girlfriend takes over the lakeside hotel in Hong Kong, but a series of disturbing and seemingly connected suicides soon begins to affect the establishment and its guests, drawing David into a complex and unsettling situation.

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Timeline – Always Be with You (2017)

Trace every key event in Always Be with You (2017) with our detailed, chronological timeline. Perfect for unpacking nonlinear stories, spotting hidden connections, and understanding how each scene builds toward the film’s climax. Whether you're revisiting or decoding for the first time, this timeline gives you the full picture.

1

Patrick's death begins the tragedy

David, a taxi driver with lung cancer, collides with Patrick, the owner of a vacation property, and Patrick dies in the freak accident. Off-duty police officer Sam, his wife Si, and Sam's aunt manage to avoid the crash after the aunt warns them to steer away. The incident triggers a chain of hauntings and guilt that threads through all the characters.

Night of the accident Road near Patrick's vacation home
2

Siu-hung's suicide links to Patrick's tragedy

Siu-hung, grieving her fiancé, leaps from a building and lands on Patrick's car. Her death compounds the sense that the living and dead are entangled by the night’s events. The moment foreshadows the film's supernatural elements.

Night of the accident Building rooftop
3

Chi-keung steals the bracelets

Chi-keung, a crematorium worker overwhelmed by gambling debts, steals a pair of precious gold bracelets that belonged to Siu-hung. He plans to sell them to pay off his loans, pulling him into the immediate orbit of the other tragedies. The bracelets will repeatedly surface as evidence and motive.

Shortly after Siu-hung's death Crematorium
4

The failed bracelet sale

Chi-keung tries to sell the bracelets on the way to a buyer, but the deal falls through when the buyer is crushed by a concrete block. The bracelets fall from his possession and are discovered by others as plausible evidence. This mishap heightens tensions around his role in the broader haunting.

Shortly after theft On the way to meet the buyer
5

Street accident injures Chi-keung and Siu-hung's sister

While crossing a street, a lorry loses control and hits Chi-keung and a couple who is identified as Siu-hung's younger sister and brother-in-law. Chi-keung and the sister survive, while the bracelets fall, later retrieved by the police as evidence. The incident tightens Chi-keung's entanglement with the dead.

Same day as bracelet incident Street
6

Yu Xin takes over the vacation house

Patrick's fiancée Yu Xin, after recovering from the tragedy, decides to fulfill his last wish by running the suburban vacation house. She sets up the operation and becomes a key figure around the property. This move ties the house to many subsequent hauntings.

After Patrick's death Vacation house
7

First suicides at the vacation house

The first tenants, a couple in love, commit suicide during their stay at the vacation house. Yu Xin and Sam Si begin to investigate the scene and sense there is more at play. The haunting is established as a repeated threat to the inhabitants.

Soon after Yu Xin opens the house Vacation house
8

Sam and Si encounter a disfigured spirit

Sam accompanies Si to investigate the haunting and discovers a disfigured female spirit haunting the property. The sight deepens the mystery and signals that the dead are active in the house. The supernatural presence becomes a central obstacle for the characters.

During the investigation Vacation house
9

David arrives and becomes Yu Xin's tenant

David appears at the vacation house and offers to help Yu Xin. After initial hesitation, she accepts him as a long-term tenant, adding him into the house’s fragile, supernatural ecosystem. His involvement becomes a new thread in the story.

After Sam and Si investigate Vacation house
10

Chi-keung is haunted and seeks refuge at the vacation house

Haunted by Siu-hung's ghost, Chi-keung is forced to flee his own place. He escapes through a window and ends up at Yu Xin's vacation house, where the haunting continues to underscore the interwoven fates of the cast. His arrival intensifies the house’s eerie atmosphere.

Shortly after he learns of the hauntings Yu Xin's vacation house
11

Chi-keung commits suicide; David discovers the truth

Chi-keung tries to end his torments by gassing himself, but his death isn’t immediately discovered. David eventually finds the body and learns of Chi-keung's note indicating his terminal debts and departure. The event adds to the circle of guilt and resentment around the living.

Later Chi-keung's rented room
12

The missing body and investigators probe

The next morning Yu Xin worries about Chi-keung's absence and checks his room; his belongings are gone. This disappearance heightens anxiety and suspicion among Sam, Si, and David as they search for answers. The mystery deepens as the truth remains elusive.

Next morning Vacation house
13

Partial corpse discovery and Chi-keung's ghost returns

A portion of Chi-keung's dismembered body is found, prompting Sam and Si to question David and Yu Xin about their last meetings with him. Chi-keung's ghost appears, and it becomes clear that David had disposed of the body but did not burn it as Chi-keung had requested. The air thickens with fear and guilt.

Later that day Vacation house / surrounding area
14

The three-week reveal and the fatal crash

That night, Sam reveals to Si that he has been dead for three weeks since the accident. Two men from the otherworld appear and drag Sam away, confirming the spectral nature of the events. In the same night, a passing lorry strike Jamie, and Sam dies at the scene, concluding the chain of fatal hauntings.

Night of the reveal and crash Street near the vacation house

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