故事发生在风景优美而又浪漫的法国。菲丽西（艾丽·范宁 Elle Fanning 配音）自幼失去了父母，住进了孤儿院。在那里，菲丽西邂逅了名为维克托（戴恩·德哈恩 Dane DeHaan 配音）的男孩，两人之间结下了深厚的友谊。内心里，菲丽西一直希望能够成为一名芭蕾舞者，但是她知道，如果一直待在孤儿院的高墙之内，她的愿望将永远无法实现。 维克托的脑袋里总是充斥着古灵精怪的奇思妙想，在他的帮助下，菲丽西找到了从孤儿院逃跑的方法，两人结伴相互扶持踏上了前往巴黎的旅途，并且在经历了千难万险之后顺利抵达目的地。到了巴黎后，菲丽西才发现，属于她的冒险才刚刚拉开序幕。
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.
