故事背景设定在一个名为西弗敦的小镇，在同一天中，史无前例的多个龙卷同时席卷这个小镇，在这些难以预测且极度致命的龙卷风群袭击下，整个小镇面临灭顶之灾。但专门研究龙卷风的追风人预测，更糟糕的情况还尚未真正到来。大多数居民都在紧迫寻找避难所，而这些追风者们却“逆向而行”赶到龙卷漩涡前，测试需要走多远才能拍到这千载难逢的极端时刻。
围绕苗族芦笙展开故事的影片，是一部融合喜剧、励志、音乐元素的少数民族风格电影。影片中，苗族“金芦笙”世家的独子陶天益被父亲寄予厚望，希望他将“金芦笙”的荣誉继承下来。但天益却有着自己的音乐追求，在经历选秀失败后，巧合之下成为“网红”。最后与乐队的对决中，天益静下心来，感受着自然万物的声音，最终吹响了苗家的神曲《凤凰展翅》。
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.
