马丁（罗伯特·雷德福 Robert Redford 饰）是一名计算机天才，20年前，他因为利用网络漏洞盗用公款而受到了警方的通缉，如今，他早已经金盆洗手改邪归正，和四个朋友成立了一家电脑公司。 某日，国安局的探员找到了马丁，希望马丁能够参与到一场行动中，盗取由编程专家戈登（蒂莫西·布斯菲尔德 Timothy Busfield 饰）所发明出来的解码器——黑盒子，传说中，世界上没有任何一个密码能够逃脱的了被黑盒子破解的命运。在国安局的威逼利诱之下，马丁一行人只得接下了这个任务，并且顺利的取得了解码器，哪知道第二天，报纸上就登出了戈登被谋杀的新闻。
故事发生在圣诞节前夕，母亲的健康突然出状况，让四名成年子女和他们令人头痛的父亲慌了手脚，面对可能即将发生的失去，家庭气氛也混乱失衡。但聪明的母亲六月处变不惊，以犀利的幽默、坦率的态度和丰沛的爱，安排好自己的人生谢幕。
The film opens in a bleak police station where celebrated war correspondent Kate Rafter (Seagrove) faces questions from a psychiatrist, Dr Shaw (Kurylenko), as they work through the painful events of Rafter’s life. A horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother (Steed) have brought a haunted Rafter home to Herne Bay, a place she believed she had escaped forever. Her resentful sister (Friel) has not made her sister welcome and her forbearing husband Paul (Miles) fails to broker peace. Whilst packing up her mother’s belongings from her childhood home, Rafter comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.
