After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.

Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.

关德林（萝玛拉·嘉瑞 Romola Garai 饰）和丹尼尔（休·丹西 Hugh Dancy 饰）两人性格迥异，一个主动奔放野心勃勃，一个温文尔雅心思细腻，但这并没能阻碍他们的相互吸引，可就在两人越走越近之时，关德林却因为经济拮据而被迫嫁给了富商格兰克（休·博内威利 Hugh Bonneville 饰）。
婚后的生活与自私自利的格兰克令生性自由的关德林感到十分痛苦，压抑之中，她向丹尼尔发出了求救信号，希望能利用他的温暖安抚自己伤痕累累的内心。可是，这时的丹尼尔正同一位名叫米拉（乔迪·梅 Jodhi May 饰）的美丽犹太女孩坠入了爱河，随着时间的推移，三人之间的情感纠葛演变得越来越复杂起来。

After a particularly grueling case hunting a serial killer known as the Minnesota Shrike, Will Graham threatens to walk away. Jack Crawford, the head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, desperately needs Will on his team to break the tough cases, so he enlists Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to ensure Will's mental well-being. Unbeknownst to Will, Hannibal also has a particular insight into these horrible crimes and the psychopaths who commit them. As Will hunts down brutal killers, he is unknowingly sitting across from the most gifted killer of them all.