故事发生在1552年的英国，即将到来的权利交替让王公贵族们各个如临大敌，在摄政王约翰达利公爵（约翰·伍德 John Wood 饰）的暗中操纵下，原本的继承人，信奉天主教的玛丽公主（Jane Lapotaire 饰）遭到了排挤，简（海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰）成为了继位者。之后，约翰公爵让儿子吉尔福德（加利·艾尔维斯 Cary Elwes 饰）迎娶了简，如此一来，实权便落入了他的手中。...
When Max, a down on his luck strip club owner, has his life and livelihood threatened by local gangsters, he turns to his wife's connections for help and hires a hitman to solve the problem once and for all. But before long, Max is blinded by his newfound power and his family finds him spinning off the rails as the body count piles up.
—Hayden Fortescue...
