洛杉矶警局的谈判专家杰夫(布鲁斯•威利斯 Bruce Willis 饰)在一次解救被劫持人质行动失败后,心灰意冷,觉得自己已经不再适合担当起这份重要的工作,于是申请调职前往一个治安良好小镇的警察局任职,心想在那里平静的度过下半辈子。 这天,小镇的三名不良青年意图偷走会计师史密斯(凯文•波拉克 Kevin Pollak 饰)的汽车时,意外令他们困在了一栋豪宅当中,惊慌失措的三人劫持了史密斯一家作人质。一向没有应付过这种场面的小镇警察们一时手忙脚乱。杰夫只能再次出马,重操旧业。同一时候,杰夫的家人也遭到了绑架。杰夫面对这起双面绑架案会如何处理?
Jin scowls into the camera when her sister – the filmmaker – asks about her earliest memories. No wonder these memories are anything but pleasant. Jin was born in the 1990s, during China’s one-child policy. It was normal then for unborn girls to be aborted – right up to the last month of a pregnancy, because boys were preferred. Living babies were also ruthlessly dumped in the garbage, or in the woods. Jin survived for a week in a box on the streets.
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself “already dead.”