开国武将周镇山一家惨遭灭门，其子周极逃亡之际被洞天教教主成义天所救，拜入门下。其间，受成义天之命劫取官银，成义天曰劫富济贫——然大部分银两还是入了洞天教私库。江南水灾时，在杭州重逢江南巡抚之女凌青瑶。两人许下约定，大仇一报，在西湖共度余生。此后十年，周极孤隐深山苦练洞天教绝学与家传刀法，刀法之快在江湖落得一个孤影刀的名号。十年生死两茫茫，周极来到苏州刺杀当年的抄家世仇——如今的苏州太守卫元虎，却意外发现凌青瑶已嫁作其妇，周极逃出重围后痛不欲生。
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.
年迈的葡萄牙殖民战争老兵被迫入住养老院，在与黑人护工赫米妮亚的相处中，不得不直面昔日战争的阴影，并在衰老与孤独中获得意外的慰籍。葡萄牙导演安东尼奥·费雷拉延续其标志性风格，在养老院这一被忽视的空间内，探讨人类处境的脆弱、死亡的必然与对救赎的渴望。
