Brij Mohan (36), a hosiery shop owner in a busy Delhi market, desperately wants to change his life. He is fed up of his ball-crusher wife and mounting debts. In order to escape his wretched life, he changes his appearance and adopts a new identity as Amar Sethi, but ends up mitting a botched up murder. He runs off with his young girlfriend, hopeful of making a new beginning. Instead, as luck would have it, he finds himself trapped in a web of his own Karma.
影片虛構(gòu)了倫·坡死前神秘”的5天里發(fā)生的事?！ “蜖?摩發(fā)生了一母女同時被的殘忍兇殺，當(dāng)?shù)鼐?邁特（盧?伊萬斯 Luke Evans 飾）調(diào)查后發(fā)灌山兇的犯罪手段愛倫·坡（翰·庫薩克 John Cusack 飾）小說中手段一模一。正當(dāng)愛?坡被叫去警詢問時發(fā)生另一件兇手，手法依舊參考他的小。了解到兇的方法后，邁特邀請愛·坡?lián)?dāng)顧協(xié)助破案。隨著案件的一步深入，邁特發(fā)現(xiàn)，倫·坡會成這個殘忍殺兇手的下一行兇目標(biāo)。當(dāng)大家全力護(hù)愛倫·坡安全時，豈兇手竟然綁了的他情人米麗（愛麗·伊芙 Alice Eve 飾）。到底誰才是真的兇手，愛·坡是不是用自己的小來揭開這場人的游戲呢
