西摩·帕里什（罗宾·威廉姆斯 Robin Williams 饰）是一家大型冲印店的普通职员，四十多岁了，一直过着孤独的单身生活，但是在他心中，一直对幸福美满的家庭有着梦想，不知从什么时候起，这份梦想被投射到熟客尤金一家身上。尤金太太妮娜（康妮·尼尔森 Connie Ni elsen 饰）美丽优雅，男主人威尔（迈克尔·瓦尔坦 Michael Vartan 饰）事业有成，他们还有个可爱的孩子——全是西蒙想得而不得的。西摩开始幻想自己是这家的一员，是可亲的“西蒙叔叔”，他还把这家人送来洗印的照片都偷偷拷贝一份私藏，事情败露后遭到解雇，但只是刺激他更加过分地接近和偷窥这一家人，在发现男主人竟然有外遇时，西蒙愤怒了，他开始着手进行惩罚，只因他梦想中的完美不容任何人破坏……
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.
