1966年,大西洋北海上漂浮着的一艘船,是深受不列颠听众喜爱的摇滚电台的大本营。因吸毒而退学的 Carl(汤姆·斯图里奇 Tom Sturridge 饰)被母亲 Charlotte(艾玛·汤普森 Emma Thompson 饰)送到这里,认识了 Quentin(比尔·奈伊 Bill Nighy 饰)、The Count(菲利普·塞默·霍夫曼 Philip Seymour Hoffman 饰)、Dave(尼克·弗罗斯特 Nick Frost 饰)等热爱音乐崇尚自由的人。另一方面,政府高官 Sir Alistair Dormandy(肯尼思·布拉纳 Kenneth Branagh 饰)决定设法取缔非法电台。随着政府向电台的赞助商施压,电台的收入持续降低。此时,出国两年现已享有国际盛誉的 Gavin(瑞斯·伊凡斯 Rhys Ifans 饰)决定海归,解决了电台的难题。可是,因为 Gavin 的回归,电台内部出现了一些新的问题……
Follows Helen and her daughter Lauren, who go on a trip to an isolated cabin in the cold north and meet a hitchhiker who actually is a thief trying to evade a cold-blooded killer, and now Helen and Lauren are on the murderer's radar too.
Followed by Darby Harper, who is granted the ability to see ghosts after suffering a near death experience in her childhood. Then, she runs a side business counseling local spirits in her spare time.
When an old man witnesses a strange meteor land, he finds himself growing younger, but his renewed youth has a price; he must kill or die. H e is a vampire, but it is not blood he needs to satisfy his cravings. A series of murders in which several women are brutally slain leads the police on a confusing chase across several states.
故事发生在一所大使馆中,在小男孩菲利普(Bobby Henrey 饰)的眼中,管家班尼思(拉尔夫·理查德森 Ralph Richardson 饰)是如假包换的英雄。这其中的原委要追溯到菲利普经常外出的父母身上,父母不在,照顾和看管菲利普的责任自然就落到了班尼思的身上,在菲利普这样一个敏感又单纯的年纪,一个替他打点一切事宜的人就等同于无所不能的英雄。
可班尼思真的如同菲利普所认为的那样正直和勇敢吗?当然不是,他不过是一个再普通不过的成年人罢了。尽管已有家室,但班尼思还是和一个名叫朱莉(米歇尔·摩根 Michèle Morgan 饰)的年轻女子保持着暧昧关系,甚至趁菲利普的父母不在家时偷偷将朱莉带到大使馆幽会。没想到,一次意外夺走了班尼斯夫人的生命,而这一单纯的事故在菲利普看来,却是一场蓄意已久的谋杀。