普洛斯佩拉女爵（海伦·米伦 Helen Mirren 饰）生性善良喜爱研究魔法，在弟弟安东尼奥（克里斯·库柏 Chris Cooper 饰）和国王阿隆佐（大卫·斯特雷泽恩 David Strathairn 饰）的联手迫害之下，普洛斯佩拉女爵不得已带着女儿米兰达（菲丽希缇·琼斯 Felicity Jones 饰）流落孤岛。
普洛斯佩拉女爵用魔法收服了岛上的精灵，之后，她召唤来暴风雨，使得安东尼奥和阿隆佐、王子菲尔迪南（利夫·卡内 Reeve Carney 饰）乘坐的船遭遇了海难，三人漂流到了普洛斯佩拉女爵所在的岛屿。在荒岛之上，野心勃勃的三人依然在斗心勾角，普洛斯佩拉女爵用魔法让他们懂得了做人的道理，亦懂得了真善美的真谛，最终，普洛斯佩拉女爵夺回了曾经属于她的一切。
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.
