After a governor issues an executive order to arrest the children of undocumented immigrants, the newly detained youth are offered an opportunity to have their charges dropped by volunteering to provide care to the elderly. Once inside the eldercare facility, the volunteers discover the governor and the facility’s supervisor have cooked up a horrifyingly depraved conspiracy that endangers both the young and the old…
故事发生在十九世纪的纽约。奥斯汀医生(阿尔伯特·芬尼 Albert Finney 饰)事业有成,在华盛顿广场有着自己的房产,在当时,这就是人生成功的标志。身为奥斯汀的女儿,凯瑟琳(詹妮弗·杰森·李 Jennifer Jason Leigh 饰)对成功的父亲充满了崇拜,但是,对于女儿的平凡,奥斯汀感到十分的不满。
一位名叫莫里斯(本·卓别林 Ben Chaplin 饰)的青年男子出现在了凯瑟琳的身边,对这个单纯的女孩发动了热烈的攻势,不敌莫里斯的热情,凯瑟琳很快就沦陷了,彭尼曼夫人(玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 饰)亦对这个仪表堂堂的男子感到十分满意。心中略感不安的只有奥斯汀一个人,因为他知道自己的女儿会在将来继承自己价值不菲的财产,这让他对莫里斯接近凯瑟琳的初衷产生了怀疑。
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
- Written by Guy Bellinger (From IMDb)