约瑟夫是一名机场安检员，生活看似平淡无奇，然而，日常的工作枯燥乏味，安检传送带也持续输送着来自乘客和同事的疏离与不安。在一次不愉快的家庭聚会后，一个新的不羁的灵魂开始侵蚀原来的他，新的约瑟夫行事不计后果，时刻处在情感爆发、自我毁灭的边缘。这不仅是主人公一场拼命挣扎的自我发现，也是社会中形形色色普通人的生活写照。影片以手持摄影的形式拍摄，富于压迫感的镜头使人轻易代入人物混乱的内心。本·卫肖的表演极具冲击力。
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.
