圣诞节前夕，一个富裕人家正在忙着筹备圣诞。窗外白雪皑皑，屋里迎来了女儿大学归来。一家人沉浸在圣诞前团聚的气氛。此时，大家以为作为一家之主的父亲还没有睡醒，谁知打开房门一开，他竟死在了睡床上，背后插着一把刀。众人惊慌失措，想报警之时却发现电话线早以被剪断；车已被蓄意破坏，无法开到警局。明显地，凶手就在这8人中间。彼此的猜忌和指控开始了，各人不为人知的秘密一一曝光，伦理道德的颠覆，贪婪自私的本性，令这个圣诞前夕特别混乱。讽刺的是，最后谁是凶手已经不重要了……
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.
