道格(帕特里克·麦克高 Patrick McGaw 饰)和女友罗拉(Sarah Lassez 饰)交往多年,彼此之间感情十分要好。道格不仅身强体壮,脑袋也十分灵光,是医学院中难得的高材生,亦是校园棒球队中的强大主力。爱情学业双丰收的道格有着无比光明的未来。 某日,罗拉有事远行,道格来到一个宴会上解闷,在那里,道格结识了名为梅丽莎(莫利·林沃德 Molly Ringwald 饰)的女子。梅丽莎性感奔放,周身散发着费洛蒙的气息,这是罗拉无论如何也无法做到的,在梅丽莎的大胆诱惑之下,道格忍不住和她共度了激情的一夜。对于道格来说,这不过是一段短暂的露水情缘,但很显然梅丽莎却并不这么认为,当道格想要回归往日的生活之时,梅丽莎对他展开了步步紧逼的纠缠。
Dr. Nathaniel Shellner, 75, has led an extraordinary life as a psychiatrist working with traumatized patients fleeing war zones in refugee camps, earning a Nobel Prize for his work. After having one child, Leonard, with his wife, Lillian, the Shellners adopt the remainder of their family from the camps where Dr. Shellner worked. Ultimately the Shellners incorporated children from all over the world into their family: Tommy, Julie, Harry. As Dr. Shellner succumbs to cancer on a frigid, icy day, the family convenes at the house where the couple raised the children for a final, bittersweet farewell. Or, that’s the idea until all hell breaks loose after Tommy arrives and accuses his father of adopting his children not out of concern for their future well-being, but to use them for some warped psychological experiment…