故事发生在繁华的都市伦敦,佩吉(弗兰西丝·奥康纳 Frances O'Connor 饰)是一名家境十分贫寒的单亲妈妈,住在破旧的老房子里,独自抚养着三个孩子珍妮特(麦迪逊·沃芙 Madison Wolfe 饰)、玛格丽特(劳伦·埃斯波西托 Lauren Esposito 饰)和强尼(Patrick McAuley 饰)。最近,房子里出现的一些灵异现象让一家人陷入了恐惧和绝望之中,更糟糕的是,年纪最小的珍妮特似乎成为了恶灵附身的对象。
教会的驱魔师劳瑞(维拉·法梅加 Vera Farmiga 饰)和艾德(帕特里克·威尔森 Patrick Wilson 饰)介入了此事,尽管他们十分同情这一家人,但两人的首要目的,则是探清此处灵异事件的真实性,然而,除了当事人的一些口述外,并没有确凿的证据证明这里真的发生了灵异事件,两人在无奈之中只有选择离去。
鲍勃(罗宾·威廉斯 Robin Williams 饰)都快50岁了,事业面临着挑战,家庭面临着危机。本来他打算在百忙之中抽出时间陪家人展开一次夏威夷之旅,以改善糟糕的家庭关系;无奈又放不下公司业务,因为一个名牌大学MBA的公司新人给他带来了严重的威胁,如果不拼了老命工作,饭碗随时不保。
用心良苦的老爹,只好临时想了一个折中办法:取消夏威夷之行,全家租来一个流动房车,前往他的出差地的城市附近,来一次野营活动。一边是忙碌繁琐的工作,一边是盼望着有个美好旅途的家庭,鲍勃得有一流的周旋功夫,不仅顾全大局而且两面讨好。问题是老爹又不是超人,应付起来自然力不从心,笑料百出。
Traveling back in time to the early 2000s, this gripping narrative brings together the concurrent histories of two serial killers and the terror they inflicted upon Baton Rouge and much of its surrounding areas. Federal investigations into unsolved murder cases of women in Baton Rouge were going nowhere because the Baton Rouge area Multi-Agency Task Force simply had so many cases on their hands. From 1991 to 2001 there were 53 unsolved murders of women in Baton Rouge, many coming from different backgrounds and ethnicities and involving different causes of death. Any attempt to sift through potential suspects led them astray because not only were they focusing on a wrong profile, but they did not consider they were dealing with more than one serial killer at the time…