载人航天宇宙飞船阿瑞斯3号成功抵达火星，谁知一场破坏力极其巨大的风暴向宇航员们袭来，阿瑞斯3号被迫中断任务，紧急返航。撤离途中，宇航员马克·沃特尼（马特·达蒙 Matt Damon 饰）被飞船上吹落的零件击中，由于生还希望渺茫，队友们只得匆匆返航，并向世人宣告他已牺牲的事实。出乎意料的是，马克以极低的概率活了下来。他躲进驻火星的航天基地疗伤。下一次火星任务要等到四年后，而基地内的补给仅够他维持31天。短暂的绝望后，马克决定利用有限的食物，在这颗空无一人的星球上种植作物，寻找一线生机。与此同时，地球方面也很快发现马克生还的事实，他们想尽办法部署营救计划。孤军奋战的马克，能否等到救援队伍的到来？ 影片改编自安迪·威尔的同名科幻小说。
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.
