Living in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, middle aged Archie Lee Meighan and nineteen year old "Baby Doll" Meighan née McCargo have been married for close to two years. Their marriage is not based on love, but each getting what they want from the other. Their marriage agreement has them consummating their marriage on her twentieth birthday, which is in three days, the act to which Baby Doll is not really looking forward. But she does taunt him and other men with her overt "baby doll" sexuality, the baby doll aspect which she fosters by sleeping in their house's nursery in a crib. Baby Doll's now deceased father allowed the marriage on the stipulation that Archie Lee provide Baby Doll financial security as displayed by the most resplendent house in the south. They currently live in a dilapidated mansion with her Aunt Rose Comfort, and although Archie Lee is making some renovations on it, he no longer has the financial means to make it what Baby Doll wants as his cotton ginning ... Written by Huggo
马特(丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰)和同为警员的妻子艾利克斯(伊娃·门德斯 Eva Mendes 饰)冷战已久,多年的婚姻濒临崩溃的边缘。这个节骨眼上,马特曾经暗恋过的女孩安(桑娜·莱瑟 Sanaa Lathan 饰)和她瘫痪在床的丈夫克瑞斯(迪恩·凯恩 Dean Cain 饰)搬回了小镇,这让马特的心情久久不能平静。
交谈中,马特意外的得知安患上了癌症,只有一种花费昂贵的治疗才能挽救她的性命,绝望之中,安和马特打起了克瑞斯的巨额保险的主意,后者更是利用职务之便,为安提供了一笔巨款。没想到意外发生了,安和克瑞斯的公寓燃起了大火,两具难以辨认的尸体出现在公众的视线之中,而本该在那里的巨款却不翼而飞。种种迹象表明,马特似乎被卷入了一个阴谋之中。
In a luxurious seaside villa, a modest young woman finds herself in the company of a strange family: an unknown and wealthy father, his extravagant wife, his daughter, an ambitious woman, a rebellious teenager, and their creepy maid. Someone is lying. Between suspicions and lies, a mystery grows and the evil spreads.