风景秀丽的海滨小镇汉普顿，是一个为蔚蓝大海所包围的权贵聚集区。觥筹交错，纸醉金迷，莺歌燕语，上流社会的人们沉湎在看似永无止境的富足快乐氛围中，殊不知危险将近。美丽女孩艾米丽·索恩（艾米丽·范坎普 Emily Van Camp 饰）租下一幢靠海的房子，这里似乎充满了其儿时的记忆，只是记忆中多了几分伤感与痛苦。不久，艾米丽结识了帅气的丹尼尔（乔舒华·鲍曼 Joshua Bowman 饰），格雷森家族的公子，其母亲维多利亚（玛德琳·斯托 Madeleine Stowe 饰）即是家族内当之无愧的领导者，也是汉普顿众所瞩目的风云人物。艾米丽有条不紊地融入格雷森家族，展开了一段绵亘十七年之久的血腥复仇……

本片根据大仲马的经典名作《基督山伯爵》改编。

An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the inside. The movie is an account of actual events surrounding Nellie’s stay beginning after she has undergone treatment, leaving her with no recollection of how she came to the asylum or her real identity.