伦敦大学的教授斯嘉丽（佩蒂塔·维克斯 Perdita Weeks 饰），年纪轻轻便拥有考古学、符号学等专业学位，更掌握四国语言。她的父亲曾经致力于点金石的探索研究，可悲的是最后死于非命。继承了父亲遗志的斯嘉丽在新近一次冒险中，从伊朗一座即将被炸毁的墓穴里找到了传说中的罗塞秘钥，这个关键发现可以帮她找到点金石的蛛丝马迹。为了实现这个目标，她请来班吉（艾德文·霍德吉 Edwin Hodge 饰）担任摄影记录工作，还拜托曾经与之一同出生入死的乔治（本·费德曼 Ben Feldman 饰）担任翻译。
男孩J的少年时代几乎在变装酒吧里度过，因为缺乏父爱，长期帮表演者梳妆理发，想成为变装皇后的憧憬也愈加强烈。男孩终于站上舞台的一刻，15年未见的拳击手父亲A却从人群中冲出，狠揍了他一顿。父子间从未平复的伤口和悔恨是否能为两人的生命带来和解呢？
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.
