影片改编自同名小说，讲述一个电影编剧(贝肯饰)带着老婆(塞弗里德饰)、孩子在阿尔卑斯山附近潜心创作，但一些离奇事件却不断发生。

While on a botanical expedition in Tibet Dr. Wilfred Glendon is attacked in the dark by a strange animal. Returning to London, he finds himself turning nightly into a werewolf and terrorizing the city, with the only hope for curing his affliction a rare Asian flower.

When the remains of two murdered Princes are discovered at the Tower of London, a troubled Priest must put his beliefs aside to befriend a mysterious prisoner, who has supernatural powers to communicate with the dead. Together they must solve the mystery of who murdered the Princes, as prisoners in the castle dungeon meet their bloody fates at the hands of the Princes' ghosts, ...

山姆是个容易焦虑紧张心思细腻的年轻小伙子，他来到一间五金行工作，但这间店里处处透着诡异气息，当山姆无意间看到了店里不可告人的秘密后，他发现自己已经被卷入这诡异的谜团之中…。

　　一部充满浪漫气息的家庭剧和当代西部传奇故事，讲述了三个牧场家庭在德克萨斯州山区广阔的苔原和滚滚河流的背景下相互交织的生活和爱情。