Ellen Carter's career is on the rocks. She hasn't written a worthy novel since her husband went missing and she was suspected by the police of murdering him. To top it all off, she has reason to believe that her new tenant Leslie Steckler is the serial killer responsible for a number of deaths in the region. But what she doesn't know is that, in the meantime, Steckler has discovered a little secret about her......
西蒙·佩吉饰演一个从儿童文学转向犯罪小说写作的作家杰克，为了写作一个名为《几十年的死亡》（Decades of Death）的剧本，天生胆小的杰克开始调查一些维多利亚时期连环杀手的资料，导致自己患上严重的妄想症，总是臆想自己会遭到谋杀。就在杰克生活搞得一团糟的时候，一个神秘的好莱坞片商却对他写出的剧本表示出极大的兴趣。...
