影片改编自小说家Owen Sheers的成名作，虚构了1944年诺曼底登陆失败后德军侵入了英格兰作为背景。一位威尔士小村庄的妇女们发现，她们的男人全在一夜之间神秘消失，这时一只德军小分队来到村子里，目的是寻找埋藏在这片土地下的中世纪宝藏。

故事讲述一对情侣坐小飞机去岛屿上参加婚礼，在离开小岛时飞行员不幸突发心脏病，俩人得想办法活下来。

电视剧《孤国春秋》的续作，根据原著小说最后三部改编，主人公乌特雷德将辅佐埃塞尔斯坦登上王位并统一英格兰。
“七位国王会死，贝班堡的乌特雷德，七位国王和你所爱的女人，（……）那是你的命运。阿尔弗雷德的儿子不会统治，威塞克斯会死，撒克逊人会杀死他所爱的人，丹麦人会获得一切，一切都会改变，一切都会像过去一样，将来也会一样。”——Ælfadell

阿尔弗雷德大帝保卫他的王国免遭挪威人的入侵，而被维京人抚养长大的撒克逊人乌特雷德则试图夺回他作为长子的继承权。

An all-male, literary secret society intervenes in the lives of a creative but troubled family residing in a downtown Los Angeles artist's loft.

Lee Haze has his sights set on escape. Even though he's only seven months deep into a twenty-year sentence at Heartlock Correctional Facility, he can already feel the outside world leaving him behind. As he plots his break out, Lee realizes his best shot at freedom is to master the art of "ducking," a specialized form of prison manipulation in which an inmate befriends a flawed guard whose improprieties can eventually be used as blackmail. Lee comes to learn that ducking is how drugs slip into prisons and, on occasion, how inmates slip out, leading him to seek out the only man who can teach him this dark craft, Continental, a convict who kills as easily as he smiles. Carving out his place in Continental's crooked labyrinth of curried favors and blood, Lee sets his sights on Tera Sharpe, a rookie guard whose tough skin hides an underlying vulnerability. All Lee needs to do now is exploit it. However, as his machinations escalate, Lee begins to fall for Tera, jeopardizing his original plan. Will he betray the woman he loves to be free, or will he find freedom in love?