Psychometry is a theory that all objects record sensory data in their molecular structure.
The student seems hypersensitive to this. Given an object, she can perceive sensations about what happened to that object. The professor gives her objects to derive impressions from, and it soon becomes clear that the owner of these objects may have met with a deadly end. And just maybe the professor is behind it all. The way the scenes where the student senses things about the objects is filmed in a way that's interesting approximately once.