邁克爾（保羅·紐曼 Paul Newman 飾）是一位非常優秀的火箭科學家，同時也是國家重點保護的珍貴人才。莎拉（朱麗·安德魯斯 Julie Andrews 飾）是邁克爾的助手，同時也是他的未婚妻，某日，兩人共同前往哥本哈根，去參加在那里舉辦的研討會。　　在哥本哈根的日子里，邁克爾的行為舉止表現的非常的怪異，就連向來能夠理解他的莎拉都感到百思不得其解，他的所有詭異行為只有一個解釋，那就是他要背叛自己的國家，逃往東德。為了弄清楚事情的真相，莎拉開始了對于邁克爾的調查，哪知道最終，莎拉選擇了和邁克爾一起叛逃。這對夫妻的行為背后，有著不為人知的目的。

該片是一部融合科幻驚悚與人性拷問的電影。影片以虛構的西岸港為背景，講述了新聞記者濮欣(徐冬冬飾演)在調查跨國企業賽爾斯集團的污染事件時，意外卷入一場由其父親濮教授(張德暉飾演)所在的孤島實驗室引發的基因災難。當實驗創造出嗜血變異昆蟲并失控后，集團為掩蓋真相切斷聯系、銷毀證據，使被困者陷入絕境。為尋找失聯的父親，濮欣與男友江海(婁淇試驗)潛入死島，在怪物橫行、通訊斷絕的險境中，逐步揭開實驗背后的殘酷陰謀。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　民國年間，上海灘閘北區保德路發生一樁命案，死者后來經過確認，竟然是馬源商會老板馬廣則。　　多年來，馬源商會在閘北一直都頗具影響力，馬廣則更是最被看好的商界風云人物，他的死打破了閘北區原本的寧靜。