海星状的怪物，五头鲨入侵了波多黎各海滩，危及一片和平的天堂岛屿。

Katelyn 'Kate' Weston, a country girl who became a lawyer and joined an L.A. law firm years ago, specializes in defending minors having committed violent crimes who nobody else takes on. She gradually got estranged from her family, but then her older brother Ryan asks her to return to the farm he runs with their dad Thane who has become impossibly absentminded. By the time he is formally diagnosed with serious Alzheimer, she realizes how badly she really knew her family, having ran from her past after the trauma of witnessing her mother's suicide at age seven, and tries to talk it trough with Ryan and dad while he still has lucid moments.

一个前度毒贩基斯搬到休斯敦,他现在的身份是一名已婚建筑师.

一个虚构的年代背景，经济萧条，人人自危，甚至要以人肉为食物赖以生存。 一幢破败的房子里住在屠夫一家。他们亦靠屠宰人肉为食。诡秘荒诞的色调下，屠夫挥舞着明晃晃的刀宰杀人肉。而这幢楼，还住着各式充满诡异色彩的人物：吃蜗牛的住客、对自杀非常迷恋的女人，爱切罐头的男子…… 他们说过，如果没有外来的食物补给，那么自己人的肉也不会放过，小丑路易（多米尼克•皮诺 Dominique Pinon 饰）前来打工，闯入了这个荒唐的世界，成为大家眼里的盘中餐。然而，屠夫的女儿（玛希罗蒂杜娜Marie-Laure Dougnac 饰）却爱上了他，并设法帮助他逃过大劫，这片世界开始陷入了混乱和崩溃之中。

少女和她的母亲（妮可·基德曼）、她身边的男孩以及她古怪的叔叔之间的故事。