Set in 1979 during Argentina's military dictatorship, Benjamín Ávila's stylized, semi-autobiographical memoir follows the travails of a fifth-grader who is forced to live under an assumed identity in order to protect his resistance-fighter parents.
本作の主人公は、植木屋で働き、いつも雑誌の切り抜きをポケットに入れて1人で妄想している変わり者・大島杜和（とわ）。彼はコンビニで働く上尾園子に恋をし、彼女と話すために店から木の葉で道を作っておびき寄せようとする。その道をたどってきた園子もまた、廃工場で暮らして奇妙な生き物の彫刻を作っている変わり者。劇中では、周りになじめない彼らが2人だけの世界を作り、仲を深めていくさまが描かれる。
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.
影片故事延续前作，路奇乌斯（保罗·麦斯卡 Paul Mescal 饰）童年时亲眼目击受万人景仰的英雄马克西蒙斯死于舅舅之手，多年后已长大成人的他，在暴君的铁腕统治下，被迫进入竞技场为生存而战。心中充满怒火的路奇乌斯，眼见罗马帝国的未来岌岌可危，决心讨回本属于他的权力和荣誉 ，还罗马人民一个辉煌的罗马。
