A former actress trying to break into directing tests her skills with a town’s annual Christmas Eve courtroom production in which the true authorship of the famous poem “A Visit from St. Nick” is debated.

当Gabby遇到Matt时，她与Elliott的婚姻受到了威胁。一开始是一个商业机会，后来发展成了一场情感事件，导致加布屈服于他无情的关注；没有预见到改变生活的后果。

影片改编自特拉维斯·亚历山大被害案。2008年6月4日，推销员特拉维斯·亚历山大（Travis Alexander）被人谋杀在亚利桑那州梅萨市他的住所，身中多处刀伤并被割喉及枪击头部。亚历山大的前女友乔迪·阿里亚斯（Jodi Arias）被控谋杀被逮捕。审讯时，她作证辩称是出于自卫而杀死亚历山大。2013年5月8日，她被裁定为一级谋杀。目前正面临被证实有罪后的死刑量刑。

The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?

May 1977. 22-year-old Colleen Stan is hitching from Oregon to California to visit friends. With a little over 40 miles of her journey left, she accepts a lift from a young couple, Cameron and Janice Hooker. It's a fateful decision. Kidnapped at knifepoint, Colleen spends the next seven years imprisoned for up to 23 hours a day in a coffin-sized box hidden beneath her captors' bed. When not incarcerated, she is employed as the Hooker's slave and child-minder, and is gradually drawn into a bizarre and complex world of extreme obsession and fantasy... Based on a true story, GIRL IN THE BOX is a dark psychological drama told through the eyes of one of the crime's perpetrators, Janice Hooker.