Two stories, 14 years apart, converge in a suburb of New York. Manuel Esquema, an international financier, whose face is badly scarred, is flying from Miami to help a New York politician negotiate a plea bargain with the Justice Department. Years before, this financier was a fresh-faced caba?a boy at a Miami Beach resort who fell in love with a young woman on holiday with her husband. The husband is now the pol, and he thinks he dispatched the caba?a boy long ago. What are Esquema's plans: revenge, mercy, or a complicated plan to seek again the woman's love? 導(dǎo)演保羅舒瑞德在本片中細(xì)膩刻出一段曲折而糾纏多的三角戀情，由眼神邃的憂郁小生約瑟夫恩斯飾演亞倫。 一位利用暑假于邁阿密濱的高級旅館當(dāng)服務(wù)生大學(xué)生，但他卻料想到這次打工的經(jīng)驗竟永遠改變他的一生；倫在此地邂逅了美麗艾拉（葛麗倩摩兒）不久后便和她陷入熱，兩人之間唯一的阻是她擔(dān)任公職的老公克（雷李奧塔）... 因難忍與心愛的人分離之苦，亞倫不智地馬克坦認(rèn)自己對艾拉愛意，妒火中燒的馬無法忍受綠云罩頂?shù)?辱因而決定對亞倫痛殺手，并誤以為已成地除掉情敵；14年后，換了新的身分與臉的亞倫發(fā)現(xiàn)自己對艾仍難以忘懷，故決心開策劃已久的復(fù)仇計，向馬克討回個公道并奪回今生唯一的摯?