故事发生在德国当代，简（丹尼尔·布鲁赫 Daniel Brühl 饰），皮特（斯坦奇·艾塞克 Stipe Erceg 饰）和朱莉（朱丽娅·耶恩奇 Julia Jentsch 饰）是三个社会上随处可见的普通青年。但在他们的内心里，愤怒和失望的火焰从未停止过燃烧，对于国家的现状，对于政府的不满，对于富人的仇恨，为了给这些汹涌的感情找到出口，他们必须要做一些与众不同的事情。 　　他们在夜里潜入豪宅之中，在大肆恶作剧一番后留下写有“好日子到头了”的恐吓纸条，这样一种行动让三位好友在情感上得到了发泄，也在精神上获得了快感。一次行动中，朱莉造成的意外导致他们不得不重返“犯罪现场”，不幸的是，他们刚好撞见了归家的房主，情势所迫，三人做了一件他们都不愿意做的事情——绑架。

In 1974, the Portuguese and their descendants fled Angola where nationalist groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Then, a Portuguese squad is barracked inside a wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.

乔恩（杰昆·菲尼克斯 Joaquin Phoenix 饰）和艾琳娜（克莱尔·丹妮斯 Claire Danes 饰）的婚姻离终点线只差一纸离婚协议了。此刻的乔恩正在机场贵宾休息室里静静等待，等待着日理万机的艾琳娜现身，两人共同完成这场离婚。可是，乔恩最终没能够等到艾琳娜，却等来了乔治（Harry Ditson 饰）和阿瑟（马克·斯特朗 Mark Strong 饰）这两个陌生男人，他们是艾琳娜的经纪人戴维（艾伦·阿姆斯特朗 Alun Armstrong 饰）派来的。　　艾琳娜是一位誉满全球的花样滑冰运动员，她用她婀娜而矫健的身姿征服了全世界的评委和观众，此时的艾琳娜正在纽约进行她的首场个人演出。实际上，艾琳娜早已经陷入了焦虑和恐惧之中，她发现了一个针对她的邪恶的阴谋。

　　强尼是波士顿着名的私家侦探，某次渡假到洛杉矶探视其哥哥，不料匪徒竟公然闯入将其哥哥和大嫂杀死，为了逮捕凶手他做了地毯式的侦探，并得到街头青少年的鼎力帮助，最后发现了绑匪集团的巢穴。

　　Within the walls of the Grave, the orphanage where Nica grew up, a legend has always been told: that of the maker of tears, a mysterious craftsman, guilty of crafting all the fears and anxieties that inhabit the hearts of men. But at seventeen years old, the time has come for Nica to leave fairy tales behind. Her biggest dream is about to come true. Mr and Mrs Milligan have started the adoption process and are ready to give her the family she has always wanted. In her new home, however, Nica is not alone. Along with her, Rigel, a restless and mysterious orphan, the last person in the world Nica would want as an adoptive brother, is also taken from the Grave. Rigel is intelligent, smart, plays the piano like an enchanting demon and has a beauty that can enchant, but his angelic appearance conceals a dark nature. Even though Nica and Rigel are united by a common past of pain and hardship, living together seems impossible, but kindness and anger are two different ways of fighting pain to stay alive and to conceal the emotions that devastate their hearts, becoming for each other that tears-maker of legend. To the maker of tears you cannot lie: and they will have to find the courage to accept that desperate force that attract them towards each other called love.