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。

Nicholas Gray a young, driven executive has a secret not even he knows about. As battles with a business rival threaten to crumble Nicholas' carefully planned world, Nicholas meets a charismatic drifter who challenges his life philosophy. Nicholas changes his outlook, loses everything... then decides to get it back..

年轻漂亮的女护士凯西到一家偏僻的私人诊所工作，在那里她见到了处于深度昏迷中的帕特里克。她逐渐发现帕特里克可以通过吐口水来与她交流，但出乎她意外的是，帕特里克似乎有惊人的能力，可以操纵她身边的人们……

　　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。