Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
漢克(小羅伯特·唐尼 Robert Downey Jr. 飾)是一名經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富的律師,專門有錢人收拾他們?nèi)浅龅臓€攤子,漢克的眼里,沒(méi)有所謂的朱蛾義,的只是永恒的利益。母親的意外世讓漢克不得不回到了印第安納家,那里是他的故鄉(xiāng),卻有著他不愿意回憶起的往事。在文文家,克見(jiàn)到了久違的父親約瑟夫(羅特·杜瓦爾 Robert Duvall 飾),一位當(dāng)了一輩子地方法官的固執(zhí)老人,父肥蜰兩人間緊張的關(guān)系并沒(méi)有因?yàn)闅q月的遷而發(fā)生任何改變。讓一心想要開(kāi)的漢克沒(méi)有想到的是,一場(chǎng)交事故讓約瑟夫卷進(jìn)了一宗豪彘情復(fù)的官司中,而自己在為父親辯護(hù)同時(shí),真相亦漸漸浮出水面?