Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

　　邁可透過一張光碟，參加了一場刺激的游戲，在月黑風高的晚上他發現自已稍稍走進一間屋子并從廚房拿刀子殺死一個沈睡著的男人當邁可醒來時他興奮極了，這一生他從沒有這么刺激和開心過，第二天當他看到新聞。天啊！那件謀殺案真的發生了嗎？后來第二張CD又寄來了，他決定結束這場荒謬的游戲，但主謀者從邁可的電腦中走出來，他竟是一具有形象的＂人＂，并且一再要脅邁可再玩下去，也挑唆他面對恐懼和幻象，邁可就像受催眠一般他無處可逃，主謀者已經完全控制了他使他分不清什么是真什么是假……

　　在天眼尚未密布，監場保安仍會打瞌睡的二十世紀七十年代，名畫大盜就是會光天化日，大剌剌走進美術館，直接把獵物從墻上取下放入布袋運走。看似兒戲的一切，背后主謀還要是住在市郊、人畜無害的住家男人。凱莉·萊卡特完全棄用好萊塢盜寶片敘事公式，改以其擅長的左翼簡約主義鏡頭，捕捉觸犯藝術罪行者的日常生活、雙面人的言行處境，以及事件周遭人情冷暖。阿瑟多夫的抽象畫作未必是一個借口，但到頭來凸顯存在荒謬的公路逃亡，儼然為觀眾添加了不少欣賞和思考的層次。

　　一群朋友計劃離開城市去海邊度過一個輕松的周末，但事情發生了變化，一個年輕女子在一個偏僻島嶼的岸邊向他們揮手求助。伸手救援便是致命的危險，他們不顧一切要逃離小島。