在好友夫妇克莱德（约翰·奥提兹 John Ortiz 饰）和露西（达芬妮·鲁宾-维佳 Daphne Rubin-Vega 饰）的介绍下，杰克（菲利普·塞默·霍夫曼 Philip Seymour Hoffman 饰）认识了漂亮可爱的女孩康妮（艾米·莱安 Amy Ryan 饰），长久以来的单身生活让杰克立刻就坠入了情网，展开了追求康妮的一系列准备。对于杰克的热情攻势，康妮十分受用，在她的梦想里，在船上来一场独特的浪漫约会对拉近两人之间的关系来说必不可少，而就在康妮和杰克的感情稳步升级之时，克莱德和露西之间的感情却发生了破裂，他们之间究竟发生了什么？与此同时，这一变故让杰克明白，独自面对灵魂和感情的深渊是每一个人都无法逃脱的宿命
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.
