杰克（本·斯蒂勒 Ben Stiller）和布莱恩（爱德华·诺顿 Edward Norton）有着各自的信仰。布莱恩是一个天主教徒，为表虔诚，他最好终身不结婚。杰克是个犹太教徒，他可以成家立室，却有一个规矩需要遵守：妻子必须也是一名犹太教徒。于是，当青梅竹马的安娜（珍娜·艾夫曼 Jenna Elfman）重新出现在两人面前时，便掀起了他们生活的波澜。
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.
