Two decades after its unprecedented television broadcast, the cast, crew and fans of the notorious BBC 'Hallowe'en Hoax' Ghostwatch look back at the show's unique production and legendary aftermath.

Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.

“鳄鱼先生”迈克·邓迪（保罗·霍根饰）是一个著名的冒险家，同时还是一个猎杀鳄鱼的好手，平时他居住在澳大利亚内陆的荒郊野外。现在他要开始最新的一次冒险，目的地就是与他平时的生活环境完全不同的新世界——美国加利福尼亚的洛杉矶。事情的起因源自于邓迪的妻子苏（琳达·柯兹洛斯基饰），这个土生土长的美国女子本来与邓迪一起过着平静悠闲的生活，但有一天她临时被父亲的报馆派往美国采访一宗谋杀案件，而静极思动的邓迪也决定要带儿子出去见见世面，于是一行数人出发前往洛杉矶，当到达了纸醉金迷的大城市后，来自荒野的鳄鱼先生当然亦少不免地闹出一连串的笑话……