故事以未曾经历统一、战乱不止的中国战国时代为舞台，主人公李信是一位秦国的少年，他因为战乱而失去双亲，并在收留自己的里长家里过着奴隶一样的生活。里长家里收留了两名战争孤儿信和漂。然而，身为孤儿的信和漂并没有因为身份的卑贱而失去志向，反而这战事频繁的乱世中，立志要成为大将军，两人一同苦练武功。他们以成为名震天下的大将军为目标，每日磨练自己，等待机会建功立业。某天，漂被带入宫中任官。及后濒死的漂回到家中，信在漂指引下，见到了因为政变而被追杀的秦国大王嬴政，他戎马天下的人生便由此拉开了序幕……
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.
退伍军人约翰戈尔德成为了一名雇佣军之后，得知他最好的朋友被谋杀了，他开始去查明真相，随着一步步的深入了解，他发现了一个惊天大阴谋...
