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天真无邪的少女清澄，为了给家人报仇，被训练成冷血杀手 ，数度杀人后，决定放下怨念...

格雷厄姆（詹姆斯?斯派德 James Spader 饰）有一个特殊的癖好，就是为各种各样的女人录影，这些女人在他的摄像机面前都毫不遮掩地谈论自己的性经验和其中细节。当格雷厄姆回到阔别多年的家乡时，他除了一辆汽车和这些录像带，一无所有。所以他只能暂时借住在同学约翰家。约翰（彼得?盖勒 Peter Gallagher 饰）是一名成功人士，他和妻子安（安迪?麦克道威尔 Andie MacDowell 饰）的妹妹辛西娅一直都在偷情，对妻子总是爱理不理。安陪着格雷厄姆去找租住的房子时，两人在餐厅进行了一次关于性的长谈，安坦言自己并不怎么重视性生活，而格雷厄姆则道出了自己的秘密：他性无能。安偶然发现了格雷厄姆为各色女人拍的录影带，因丈夫冷淡而内心苦闷的她决定也来录影。

电影讲述了子豪生活在海边小镇归港，过着靠海吃饭的日子。一日，他偶遇神秘的女孩小艺，并开始照顾小艺生活。子豪父亲所在的远洋号，捕鱼船归来船员却全体失踪。经历丧父之痛的子豪在小艺的照顾下走出了阴霾，两人也在一起了。但好景不长，一个名叫老金的神秘中年人来到归港，揭开了小艺的真实身份——小艺竟然是人鱼族！子豪能否接受小艺的身份，小艺能否守住种族的秘密？

Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.