并不遥远的未来，来自外星系的异星蜓入侵地球，造成超过一千万人死亡。危难时刻，勇敢的队长瑞克汉姆阻挡了侵略者扩张的步伐。利用这有限宝贵的时间，地球人致力寻找具有极高天赋的少年加以训练培养，以期他们能够成为挫败外星入侵者的领袖人物。身形瘦小、神色忧郁但目光无比坚定的安德·维京（阿沙·巴特菲尔德 Asa Butterfield 饰）正是这群少年中的一员，他也是国际舰队寄予厚望并重点培养的对象。经过数轮严苛的考评，安德的潜质得到战斗学校的指挥官格拉夫上校（哈里森·福特 Harrison Ford 饰）的肯定，他被上校带到了位于轨道空间站上的战斗学校，在全封闭的环境下，未来的英雄迎来新一轮的磨练…… 本片根据美国科幻小说作家奥森·斯科特·卡德（Orson Scott Card）的原作改编。
Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.
