故事发生在1946年的德国，第二次世界大战刚刚结束，战火让大地满目疮痍，家庭妻离子散。英俊上校刘易斯（杰森·克拉克 Jason Clarke 饰）和他的妻子瑞秋（凯拉·奈特莉 Keira Knightley 饰）在战争中失去了他们的大儿子，瑞秋因此非常的痛恨德国人，但是让她没有想到的是，战后，她和她剩下的家人们，要和一个名为史蒂芬（亚历山大·斯卡斯加德 Alexander Skarsgård 饰）的男人住在同一屋檐下。
A young nurse begins her shift at an old city hospital. After a strange apparition one of the oldest nurse tells her that a patient, Mr. Moore, entered the hospital a few years ago. His body was completely burned after a fire. Mr. Moore was operated urgently by the doctors. But no one wanted to assist him. The pain and drugs had driven him mad - One night one of the nurses went...
Desperate to experience true emotion, a young woman, CARYS, regularly attends the funerals of strangers. But she's unprepared for the secrets she must keep and the lies she must tell when, at one fateful wake, she falls for TYLER, who is mourning his fiancée. As Carys allows herself to experience love for the first time, she begins to fear that perhaps her fascination with death might lead to her own untimely demise...