一名年轻女子在城市街道上不省人事——她声称自己两个月前被残忍杀害，然而现实是她刚从一家精神病医院逃走，她应该如何证明她的身份？揭穿死亡和谋杀凶手的真相呢？

California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted. What's more, his wife won't answer his calls. It's as if everyone were avoiding him. When his car breaks down, Sam becomes a prisoner of the empty, hostile environment. Alone and without human contact for days on end, he listens continuously to a talk-show on the only local radio station. The host, a man named Eddy, takes calls from listeners who share their thoughts on a child killer at large in the area. At the same time, Sam starts getting psychologically harassed by strange threats he receives on his pager. Gradually, people begin to reappear and attempt to kill him. Sam has become a target and he must now defend himself. Little by little he loses it, caught up in a paranoid identity crisis. Is he truly the killer they're after, or is he being driven ...

影片根据一个真实的故事改编——普奇奥家族。这个富裕的布宜诺斯艾利斯家族索取赎金，杀人赚钱。根据阿根廷犯罪史上一次可怕的事件，电影剖析了罪恶的道德模糊性和平凡性。

十八世纪初，制图家格林在从欧洲向东方的科考旅途上。在翻越喀尔巴阡山脉的过程中，他迷失在森林深处一座被遗弃的村庄——只有偶然的意志和浓雾能将他带到这个被诅咒的地方。在这里生活的人不像任何他在旅途上曾经见过的人。这些通过深深的沟渠将自己与世界隔绝的人们，天真地相信这样便能摆脱不纯净，却不明白腐朽早已深入他们的灵魂，只是在等待时机爆发。这位唯物主义的科学家在梦里也不会预料到，在这里迎接他的是魔鬼的忠实仆人。

　　鲍勃（罗宾·威廉斯 Robin Williams 饰）都快50岁了，事业面临着挑战，家庭面临着危机。本来他打算在百忙之中抽出时间陪家人展开一次夏威夷之旅，以改善糟糕的家庭关系；无奈又放不下公司业务，因为一个名牌大学MBA的公司新人给他带来了严重的威胁，如果不拼了老命工作，饭碗随时不保。 用心良苦的老爹，只好临时想了一个折中办法：取消夏威夷之行，全家租来一个流动房车，前往他的出差地的城市附近，来一次野营活动。一边是忙碌繁琐的工作，一边是盼望着有个美好旅途的家庭，鲍勃得有一流的周旋功夫，不仅顾全大局而且两面讨好。问题是老爹又不是超人，应付起来自然力不从心，笑料百出。