Chinese scholarship student Wei travels to New Zealand to pursue medical research at a prestigious university. Shy, introverted, and with a hereditary birthmark on her face, she is ostracized by her socialite cousin Angela and her glamorous friends. Determined to change her fate, Wei devotes herself to her late father's research on a revolutionary skin transplant procedure that could cure her deformity. As her experiments take a turn, she becomes more dangerous and out of control, willing to eliminate anyone who threatens her secret.