十数年前，一群年轻人来到肯特郡的森林，抗议政府在此修建高速公路。随着夜幕降临，他们却遭到恐怖与无情的屠杀。 转眼来到2009年。居住在加利福尼亚的美丽女子苏珊·戈登（查瑞丝玛·卡朋特 Charisma Carpenter 饰）是美国著名的推理小说作家，因某种原因，她的新作迟迟无法完成。在出版商查尔斯（理查德·瑞尼斯福德 Richard Raynesford 饰）的帮助下，她和丈夫大卫（保罗·斯卡福 Paul Sculfor 饰）搬到英国肯特郡一桩乡间别墅居住。远离了城市的喧嚣，苏珊得到久违的平静。然而好景不长，她接连看到奇怪的景象，而周遭的怪异事件也令她恐慌非常。事态愈演愈烈，一切似乎和当年的惨剧息息相关……

The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars James D'Arcy (Master & Commander), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust). The story revolves around former soldier Sam Norwood who takes a job as a prison officer when he returns from Iraq and becomes exposed to the underworld of prison culture - including corrupt guards and drug trafficking.

A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.