White: Melody of Death

On their debut night, The Pink Dolls step onto the stage, but the performance fails to win over a wide audience. The members feel the pressure to be taken seriously and struggle to define their sound. Tensions simmer as they chase a breakthrough and image that will connect with fans.

The group relocates to a renovated studio that had burned in a fire fifteen years earlier, funded by sponsor Mr. Choi. The move comes with conditions that raise troubling ethical questions and hint at a hidden history behind the project. A sense of unease settles over the members as the past seems to shadow their present.

While cleaning the dance rehearsal room, Eun-ju discovers a VHS tape labeled White containing unfinished footage of a music video. She screens the tape in her dorm, uncovering a fragment of the group's history that was never shared publicly. The discovery suggests that the song and its origins are more ominous than they appeared.

The group's manager reviews the tape and immediately demands that the group remake the song as their next single. The directive tightens control over the project and deepens the sense that a darker history surrounds the music. The tension between artistic ambition and unsettling secrets grows louder.

The Pink Dolls surge to overnight fame with a live performance of White, with Soon-ye doubling as Jeni’s high notes. The sudden success triggers jealousy and fear among the other members. The group dynamics fracture as personal ambitions clash with group loyalty.

Jeni is chosen as the main focus but is mysteriously strangled with microphone cords during a vocal session after being pressured to overdose on her medication. The incident shocks the group and raises questions about what the song truly hides. The underlying curse begins to feel all too real.

A-rang is selected to take Jeni’s place, only to be attacked by a white-haired ghost during filming for the music video, sending her to the hospital along with Jeni. The supernatural disturbance signals a darker history behind the project. Production continues under growing fear and speculation.

Shin-ji is chosen for a survival reality show, and the same apparition attacks her, inciting a riot among spectators and leaving her trapped in camera equipment and hospitalized. The haunting escalates and fans notice the chaos as the line between performance and danger blurs. The tragedy deepens the sense that the song carries a deadly weight.

They suspect trainee Jang Ye-bin authored the track, prompting Eun-ju to confront Mr. Choi, who claims Ye-bin died by suicide. The confrontation intensifies the mystery of the song’s origins and who truly wrote it. The group’s past starts to come back with dangerous clarity.

Back in the rehearsal room, Eun-ju is menaced by the white-haired ghost and collapses, finding a suicide note beside power sockets that may have started the fire. Soon-ye and Tae-Yong seek guidance from a priest and visit Ye-bin’s grave to bless the site and ask Ye-bin to move on. The experiences sharpen the sense that old wounds still linger.

Afterward, a despondent Eun-ju credits herself for the song as a solo, adopting a stark white image and the stage name White. Her new status isolates her from Soon-ye and the other members, who watch from hospital beds in growing bitterness. The path to her solo debut becomes a test of loyalty versus ambition.

Soon-ye and Tae-Yong uncover subliminal messages within the video that indicate Ye-bin was not the true singer, and that another unseen figure remains. The revelation deepens the mystery and suggests a broader conspiracy behind the track. They brace for a confrontation that could expose the truth.

A television producer calls to confirm that Jeni, A-rang, and Shin-ji have fallen into a trance, muttering about being hot before drinking bleach and dying live on air. Soon-ye races to the venue to rescue Eun-ju, but the doors are locked and the show has begun. When the lights fail and the electricity falters, chaos erupts backstage and on the floor.

In a tense crescendo, Soon-ye reaches the venue to rescue Eun-ju, but the doors are locked and the show continues as disaster unfolds. The manager and Mr. Choi are killed by stage equipment as the white-haired ghost closes in on Eun-ju. The crowd panics as the curse tightens its grip.

Soon-ye mourns Eun-ju and destroys the remaining evidence in the studio’s karaoke room, only to hear the karaoke machine announce the next song, White, leaving the possibility that the curse has not been fully broken. The film closes on a chilling note that the past may still come back for the Pink Dolls.