路易斯（杰克·吉伦哈尔 Jake Gyllenhaal 饰）是个无所事事的小混混，整日干的尽是一些偷鸡摸狗的勾当。一次偶然中，他目睹了摄影记者工作的场面，从中觅得商机的他决定自己干上一票。路易斯购置了摄像装备，通过窃听警方无线电的方式抢先一步到达犯罪现场进行拍摄，再将摄像资料卖给晨间新闻制片人妮娜（蕾妮·罗素 Rene Russo 饰）换取酬劳。在尝到了几次甜头之后，路易斯招募了里克（里兹·阿迈德 Riz Ahmed 饰）作为搭档，准备“扩张”自己的事业。渐渐的，普通的车祸或火灾现场已经无法满足路易斯和妮娜的胃口，他们需要的是更血腥、更劲爆、更吸引眼球的新闻场面，为了得到珍贵的一手资料，路易斯甚至不惜“亲自动手”。

Ono’s work related destruction to interpersonal, often intimate, human relations. This element was particularly thought-provoking in ?Cut Piece?, one of many actions she did as DIAS [Destruction in Art Symposium]. Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan, and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965. Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts at the moemnt of unbosoming. ?Cut Piece? entailed a disrobing, a denouement of the reciprocity between exhibitionism and scopic desires, between victim and assailant, between sadist and masochist: and, as a heterosexual herselft, Ono unveiled the gendered relationship of male and female subjects as objects for each other.(source: Kristine Stiles,?Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions,? in: Out of Actions: between performance and the object, 1949–1979, Paul Schimmel (ed.), MoCA Los Angeles, New York/London, 1998, p. 278.)

电影讲述了在新年即将到来之前，四对情侣在克服恐惧与不安的同时，度过了一周欢笑与浪漫并存的时光。

A former slave arrives in a desolate former boomtown now on the decline. Meanwhile, a local prospector discovers gold – and is murdered…