The film opens with Ellie, while dancing in her room
She is an aspiring fashion designer, and lives with her Gran Peggy
And she has been mourning the death of her mother,
who appears to Ellie in mirror reflections at times
Peggy shows Ellie a letter, that she has received
informing her, that she has been accepted into a fashion school in London
she is excited, but Peggy warns her that there are bad people, up where she is going
and she is always worried about her, because Ellie has the ability to see people, that no one sees
But Peggy is causing her to go, because this is her dream and the dream of her mother
Ellie takes the train to London, and is driven to her room
The cab driver makes creepy comments to Ellie, she gets off at a shop, and waits for the man to leave
so she can keep walking to her room
She gets there, and meets her roommate, Jocasta
Ellie goes out with her and her friends
where it is revealed that Ellie’s mother, died by suicide after a struggle with mental illness
While in the bathroom, Ellie overhears Jocasta talking trash about her to the other girls
and leaves the pub, walks back to her room
but she spots an older man, looking her way and smirking
later, while Ellie tries to sleep, she finds a party going on outside
and she meets a young man, named John, The only student who tries to befriend her
The next morning
Ellie wakes up late, and runs to class
where she makes it on time for attendance
she decides to find a place of her own, for peace of mind
and She finds a room in a home, kept by a woman named Ms. Collins
She gives Ellie a set of rules, to follow
And she was required to pay two months rent in advance and two month deposit
because more than one person left the place after the first night
and allows her to stay in the bedroom upstairs
Ellie likes the place and rests for the night, sleeping all the way under the covers
When Ellie gets out of bed she finds herself somehow in the 1960s
She walks into a venue called Cafe de Paris,
and sees her reflection as another young woman, named Sandie
Ellie follows her, as though she is there watching everything unfold
Sandie wants to be a singer at the venue, but is met with unwanted attention by a surly patron
She is told to speak to a man about being a singer, his name is Jack
Sandie meets Jack, and is charmed by him
they are dancing together, until the patron makes rude comments
Jack punches him in the face, and runs away with Sandie
after they escaped, he offered to go with her in his car, to the home
It seems that her address is the same, as Ellie's
And after that, she finds Sandie in her bed
but when she tries to touch her
she wakes up back in the present
At school, Ellie becomes inspired to create a design, based on what Sandie wears in the dreams
Later, Ellie goes back to sleep, hoping to wake up in the 60’s again
in the dream, She finds Jack knocking on the door
and he brings her to meet the owner of a different venue, the Rialto
so that she can sing for him
The guys there note, that she can definitely sing
when they are outside
He asked if her real name is Sandie
And she said no, but it is her nickname of name Alexandra
and says he will be her special assistant
Ellie dyes her hair blonde like Sandie
she looks for the dress that Sandie was wearing, and it is very expensive, but she bought it
and continues to work on her dress design
which her teacher seems to like it, while Jocasta just mocks her out of pettiness
later, Ellie sees the venue
where she saw Sandie perform, as it appears in the present day
So she feels that what she saw in the dream was in reality
then She goes to a pub, asking for a job
As she heads back to her room
the old man who saw her from the other night, follows her
and claims to recognize her, because of her hair
but he insists, that he is not trying to pick her up
He asks about her name and her mother’s name
She tells him, that her mother is dead
and she leaves him
Ellie returns to the ’60s, and goes to the Rialto
but she finds Sandie, dancing as a backup for a woman performing as a marionette
meanwhile, she sees that Jack is telling her
that if she wants to make it in the music business, she has to make certain men happy
Ellie sees her in the bedroom, as a lecherous man enter the room
she screams at him, and he appears to hear her, but Ellie wakes up
The experience causes her to rip up the pink dress design, she originally drew in class
she continues to get through work and school
In her next trip to the ’60s
she sees that Sandie is becoming more jaded and unhappy, as Jack forced
her into many forbidden things, like prostitution, drug and alcohol selling
plus using fake names like Alex and Lexie
Only one man does not take advantage of her, and is charming to her
He told her about her name
And she tells him if he is a police officer
And he says she deserves a better life than the one she is in
If she sees herself in the mirror, she will know
it seems that Ellie is a reflection of the innocent truth on Sandie's face
Sandie talks down about herself, while Ellie tries to get her attention through the mirror
She manages to smash through the glass
and grab Sandie, but she wakes up, she sees people without faces in the room
Ellie gets tired of lack of sleep and goes to her college until night,
because she is afraid to go home
John sees that Ellie is looking a bit unwell, so he invites her out, to a Halloween party
Jocasta and her friends see them together, and give them drinks
They all start dancing
but in the middle of things
Ellie sees ghoulish visions of the men who took advantage of Sandie,
as well as she herself dancing alone
John takes Ellie home, when he sees her looking bad
in the room
Ellie has a new dream, which shows Jack attacking Sandie
Ellie starts yelling at him, to get off her
but Jack stabbing Sandie to death
Ms. Collins overhears the noise, and orders John to leave
as one of her rules is not to have male visitors
and she simply tells Ellie to go to bed
The next day, Ellie apologizes to Ms. Collins for what happened
and she asks her if anyone died in her room, or she knows a woman called Sandie
but Ms. Collins is dodgy about it
Later, She runs to the police station to report the murder
believing that the old man is Jack, and that he got away with killing Sandie
but the detectives don't believe her
she goes to the library with John, to search for cases of disappearances and murders in the 60s
But surprisingly, they found out that most of the disappearances were of men, not women
And the strange thing is
that they disappeared after a night in her neighborhood, in Soho
and She begins to hallucinate the ghost men following her around the library
nearly leading her to stab Jocasta in the face
John runs after Jocasta to explain things, while Ellie leaves in a panic
Ellie arrives late for work, and finds that the old man is waiting for her
She takes out her phone, to try and record a confession out of him
but when she brings up Sandie, he says Alex killed Sandie
and that whatever happened to her, was something she got herself into
Ellie runs after the man, but he gets hit by a car on the street, and dies
his manager tells someone to call for help, and says he’s a former cop named Lindsay
she realizes the man is not Jack, but rather the man, who was polite to her
Ellie asked John for helping her to go back to her grandmother
and they arrived at the home, so she can collect her belongs
and she says to John to enter the home, if she late there
Ms. Collins opens the door
gives Ellie tea, to be calm
And she gives her some letters of her own
Ellie found that there are letters, in the name Alexandra, the real name of Sandie
it seems that Ms. Collins know Ellie was in the police station
because She tells Ellie that some police officers were here this morning
to check if anything strange happened before, like murders
and she is revealing that her name to be Alexandra in a letter, which is what Sandie told Jack before
and because of all the abuse in her life, she decided to stab Jack to death
because he lied before about making her a singer, and forced her into prostitution
not he only, but everyone who tries to approach her
and finally, she got revenge on all the men who abused her by murdering them
meanwhile, Ms. Collins says that she poisoned Ellie’s tea
and will make it look like a suicide
John notice that Ellie is late in the home, so he enters looking for Ellie
she regains enough strength to warn John to run
but Ms. Collins stabs him, while Ellie tries to run upstairs,
seeing the younger Sandie attacking her
the fire starts and begins spreading
Ellie locks herself in her room
where the spirits of Sandie’s victims break through the floors and walls,
begging Ellie to kill Ms. Collins
The reason is that Ellie sees people without faces,
because Sandie, see them like that in her eyes
When she finally breaks in, she sees her reflection as Sandie
and realizes, that she has become just as much of a monster, as the men who hurt her
She tries to slit her throat, but Ellie stops her and tries to help her
but Ms. Collins chooses to stay and die in the fire, while letting Ellie go
Ellie gets John out of there as medics arrive, and Ms. Collins allows the flames to consume her
Sometime later, Ellie presents her work in a fashion show
her grandmother was there, and she is very proud of Ellie
John was in attendance to cheer her, on along with the rest of the audience
she sees her mother in the mirror like in the past ,and seems to return to her life
As they come to congratulate her, Ellie sees Sandie’s reflection in the mirror waving at her