在一个随时都在被人追杀的陌生国度,凯西(斯科特·阿金斯 Scott Adkins 饰)得到师傅的重托带着传说中的神秘武器来到纽约。师傅最终惨遭杀害,为了替师报仇,也为了解开宝物的真相,凯西开始通过仅有的一点点线索去寻求幕后的黑手。当他一点点拨云见日,了解到了这个幕后黑手原来是一个国际化的地下暗杀组织,并且这个暗杀组织的得力杀手是他的同门师兄时,凯西惊愕使然,他不愿意面对眼前的这一切。他坚信师兄是被人利用,这个组织的背后肯定还隐藏着更大的阴谋……
并不富裕的伊莱扎(乌玛•瑟曼 Uma Thurman 饰)与丈夫以及两个年幼的孩子挤在曼哈顿的一间小小的公寓里。虽然伊莱扎一直都想成为一名专业的作家,但是无奈两个孩子年幼,而丈夫又要上班,所以她只能当起了全职妈妈,写作也只能在料理家务的间隙进行。这天是女儿卡拉拉六岁的生日, 伊莱扎一早便开始为生日会采购。可是谁能料到这样重要的一天竟然状况百出。当伊莱扎为了女儿的生日会四处奔波之际,她不禁为自己“无助”又“凄惨”的母亲生涯感到悲哀。可是当晚上看到女儿快乐的样子,而丈夫终于懂得体贴自己,伊莱扎终于感受到了作为一个母亲不一样的感受。
Michael Schäffer is among the Westerners whose families are killed in the great tsunami while on holiday at Thailand's Phuket beach. So is Billi Cramer, who is less introvert and hence accepts a Greek international relief force therapist's advice to seek contact with a compatriot in the same position. They got on so well there may be a real relationship in the making, but the grief still weighs heavily.
The protagonist, after years spent in war-torn Syria, decides to return to Italy, to finally put behind his terrible experiences, and regain his life.
But in order to do so, he will have to pay a very high price.