改编自露丝·韦尔的同名畅销小说。 一名旅游记者被派去报道一艘豪华游艇的下水仪式，她在夜深人静时目睹一名乘客被抛入海中，但没人相信她的故事，因为经查明船上所有人都在。随着船驶过荒凉的北海，她冒着生命危险固执地寻找答案。
盖布丽（安琪拉·琼斯 Angela Jones 饰）的童年里有一段非常可怕的经历，年幼的她曾经在凶杀现场亲眼目睹死尸。这一段奇异的人生经历让盖布丽开始对尸体和死亡产生了好奇之心，这股子好奇随着她年龄的增大越发强烈起来，盖布丽甚至会特意的收藏报纸上的谋杀新闻做成剪报册，时时翻阅温习。 迈阿密接连发生凶杀案，被害者均是养尊处优的阔太太，而且无不身首异处。这起连环杀人案件很快就吸引了盖布丽的注意，为了能够更加接近命案现场，盖布丽来到了一间专门清理命案现场的保洁公司应聘成为了员工，并且在机缘巧合之下同连环杀人犯（威廉·鲍德温 William Baldwin 饰）有了一面之缘。
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.
"Miss, what's that?" the kid asked the stewardess, pointing to a small crack that he noticed in celing above him. At that point, the crack widens and the entire roof of the airplane is ripped off. Based on a true story. On April 28, 1988, Aloha Airlines flight 243, halfway between Big Island and Maui, suddenly lost an 18-foot section of its front fuselage, due to metal fatigue. At 24,000 feet of altitude, the sudden decompression leaves room for panic in the cabin. But in the flight deck, Captain Schornstheimer and First Officer Tompkins are faced with the difficult task of safely landing the crippled, barely-controllable airliner, as the title says.
