The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

 故事發生在美國西部大開發時期，燕西（理查德·迪克斯 Richard Dix 飾）帶著妻子莎布拉（艾琳·鄧恩 Irene Dunne 飾）千里昭昭來到了廣袤而又荒蕪的俄克納馬拉，心里懷揣著遠大的理想，希望能夠在這里做出一番建樹。俄克納馬拉的生活環境十分艱苦和險峻，然而，夫妻兩人同心協力，慢慢改善和建立著他們的家園。在日子漸漸穩定的過程中，在當地生活的牧場主們感到他們的利益受到了侵犯，他們常常會找燕西的麻煩，卻又被燕西用智慧巧妙的化解。燕西十分同情在當地生活的印第安土著，與此同時，嫉惡如仇的燕西亦對壓迫和剝削原住民的資本家們充滿了仇恨，隨著時間的推移，雙方的矛盾漸漸尖銳起來。

　　三年前的8月31日，“侵略者”巨大的母艦突如其來地降臨在東京，眼看這個世界即將迎來末日。　　自此之后，絕望漸漸地融入了日常生活；大大的飛碟盤旋于空中，今天也依然不變地持續環繞著世界。而在還沒有來到世界末日的此刻，小山門出、中川凰蘭這兩個高中女生的青春時代才正要展開。

　　當活著比死更需勇氣，十二個少年來到荒廢醫院，進行本以為是12 比0 的投票，通過後便可集體自殺，卻發現房間多了一具屍體，必須找出兇手和企圖破壞契約的潛入者。劇情以新本格派推理展開，同時進行「十二怒漢」式針鋒相對。原來再厭世，內心極渴望別人聆聽自己故事。每一個都可疑，每一個都隨時被說服，結局示範最令人心悅誠服的反轉。《20 世紀少年》（2008-09）、《愛的成人式》（2015）導演堤幸彥巧妙觸碰少年自殺的禁忌，像補完計劃般置諸死地，在絕望深淵，一次擁抱可拯救一個靈魂。