Following the death of her father, a 17-year-old girl is sent to live with her estranged family and finds fort in a questionable friendship with a self-destructive neighbor, leading both on a startling path to self discovery.

西蒙·佩吉扮演一个从儿童文学转向犯法小说写作的作家杰克，为了写作一个名为《几十年的灭亡》（Decades of Death）的脚本，生成怯懦的杰克起头查询拜访一些维多利亚期间连环杀手的资料，致使本身得严重的妄图症，老是臆想本身会遭到谋杀。就在杰克糊口弄得一团糟的时辰，一个神秘的好莱坞片商却对他写出的脚本暗示出极年夜的乐趣。