Balmer, an agency nurse met Sweeney who is confessed of killing his ex-girlfriend. He subjected her to fatal attack before evading capture. Balmer rebuilt her life to confront Sweeney seven years later after arrested for another murder....
理发师艾迪（Billy Bob Thornton 饰）的生活平淡无奇，在百货店担任簿记的妻子多丽丝（Frances McDormand 饰）和他貌合神离，艾迪凭丈夫的直觉断定妻子与其老板戴夫有染。一日，艾迪接待的一位客人大肆吹嘘新兴的干洗生意，并拉拢艾迪投资，不甘在小镇寂寞一生的艾迪决意入股，并向戴夫发出了匿名威胁信勒索以获得资金。艾迪如愿收到封口费，但事情很快暴露，戴夫找到艾迪泄愤不成反被杀死。戴夫之死导致多丽丝入狱，艾迪反而未受怀疑，于是他超脱于事件之外，每日只靠少女贝蒂（Scarlett Johansson 饰）的琴声打发时光，不久一场车祸让事情急转直下……...
After a winter storm strands five friends in a remote cabin with no power and little food, disorientation slowly claims their sanity as each of them succumbs to a fear that the snow itself may be contaminated or somehow evil....
