盖布丽（安琪拉·琼斯 Angela Jones 饰）的童年里有一段非常可怕的经历，年幼的她曾经在凶杀现场亲眼目睹死尸。这一段奇异的人生经历让盖布丽开始对尸体和死亡产生了好奇之心，这股子好奇随着她年龄的增大越发强烈起来，盖布丽甚至会特意的收藏报纸上的谋杀新闻做成剪报册，时时翻阅温习。 迈阿密接连发生凶杀案，被害者均是养尊处优的阔太太，而且无不身首异处。这起连环杀人案件很快就吸引了盖布丽的注意，为了能够更加接近命案现场，盖布丽来到了一间专门清理命案现场的保洁公司应聘成为了员工，并且在机缘巧合之下同连环杀人犯（威廉·鲍德温 William Baldwin 饰）有了一面之缘。
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.
1966年夏天，迎接暑假到来的三姊弟，一如往常地嬉戏玩乐，与家人讨论暑假的旅游计划。看似和乐的家庭，直到母亲意外得知父亲不可告人的秘密后，逐渐崩解。这回透过小孩们的无奈答话，充分展现二战之后逐渐弥漫的保守氛围，并讥讽当时社会的道德假面。
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