这部电影记叙了连尼·麦克林的一生。二十世纪七十年代，伦敦东区，连尼是一名年轻的街头斗士，他与罗伊·肖经过三场无执照拳击大赛，最终获得冠军头衔“老大”。1998年，连尼客串了电影"两杆大烟枪"，在票房排行榜排第一的同一天，兰尼的自传也占了榜首地位。
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.
