一场劫案过后，四名罪犯躲在偏远的安全屋里蛰伏，等待指令。随着猜忌不断加剧，有一件事逐渐清晰 —— 真正的威胁或许不在屋外，而在他们之中。

大学讲师莉亚·戴尔博士一直为自己的学术诚信而自豪，所以当大四学生罗斯提交了一篇可疑的顶级论文时，莉亚很快就把她叫了出来。但是，随着罗斯将这一挑战视为对个人的冒犯，还有更多的事情在发生，一开始看似公开的学术欺骗案件很快就失控了。

In 1961, Sally Bishop and her husband vacation to Northern Italy, where they get stranded at a remote villa run by the enigmatic Vova, who presides over a household of beautiful, deathless women and their caretaker. As Sally becomes entangled in their world of seduction, violence and illusion, she begins to lose her grip on time and self as her own dark transformation unfolds.

In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.