In a high school classroom, students grieve the loss of one of their peers: Tomie Kawakami, who has been murdered and dismembered. Stunned by the news of her death, the class is bewildered by the cruel fate that has struck someone so close to them; such a radiant and beautiful girl did not deserve such a grotesque end. Yet, a strikingly familiar student suddenly appears at the classroom door. Gorgeous, slender, and sporting a beauty mark beneath her left eye, Tomie smiles and apologizes for her tardiness. But this is merely the start of the mysteries surrounding this seemingly inhuman woman. Men unfortunate enough to catch her gaze become instantly smitten, yet they are also driven by a dark impulse to dismember her, an urge they often succumb to. And each time, Tomie returns from the dead to resume her favorite pastime: toying with men.