两个好友麦迪和特里什被困在偏远泻湖中，与名叫塞托的危险虎鲸相遇，需要在生死关头中寻求逃脱机会。
811 AD, a family, isolated in their home, deep in the woods a few days travel from Birka. They are poor. The hunting and fishing has been bad for some time, and the father, Joar, takes the desperate measure of going on a Viking raid. Joar does not return for a long time, and the family starts to fear he never will. Runa, the oldest daughter, takes over her fathers chores in his absence. She misses him dearly and nourishes a tender hope that he, once again, will return to them. But in her heart, somehow she knows, that the suffering of the family has just begun. There is something in the air, something in the water, the wind and in the soil. Runa is becoming aware of something vile, something dangerous out in the forest. One day when she is out hunting, she finds a bleeding man, a warrior, almost unconscious. She brings him inside and the family tend to his wounds. As he heals, she realizes he is sent to protect the family from an approaching evil. And he brings news of her father.
维克多（Paul Blain 饰）和妻子安妮特（Marie-Christine Friedrich 饰）结婚多年，两人共同养育着女儿帕梅拉（Victoire Rousseau 饰），一家人住在风景如诗如画的维也纳，日子平静之中充满了幸福。然而，让安妮特没有想到的是，维克多竟然沾染上了毒品，整日和毒贩们厮混在一起。 回到巴黎后，维克多不仅没有改邪归正，反而变本加厉，一个幸福美满的家庭眼看着就要毁于一旦。在发现维克多不可能改变后，安妮特果断的带着帕梅拉离开了家，两人相依为命，隐姓埋名的生活着，一晃眼就是十一年过去。彼时的帕梅拉已经成长为了亭亭玉立的大女孩，童年时代不幸的经历让她对父亲充满了愤怒和怨怼。当帕梅拉得知自己的父亲依然活着，并且就和自己生活在同一个城市后，她决定去见一见他。
抗日战争时期，华北根据地龙门村有赵姓父子两人，父亲（舒适）是民兵队中队长，12岁的儿子海娃（蔡元元）则是儿童团团长。某天，赵父让海娃给八路军送一封有关攻打日军炮楼的鸡毛信，海娃装扮成放羊娃赶着一群羊携信上路。 路途，海娃遇到敌人，急中生智把信藏在绵羊的尾巴之下，逃过一劫。海娃被迫带路，晚上却趁敌人熟睡取信逃跑，中间信一度得而复失、失而复得，海娃也再落敌人之手，这回，聪明勇敢的他将敌人引上了歧途，而敌人发现上当时，打伤了海娃的手，这时，八路军赶到。
豪斯夫人（林·科恩 Lynn Cohen 饰）的死让目击者拉里（伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰）起了疑心，因为作为死者的丈夫，保罗（杰里·阿德勒 Jerry Adler 饰）不仅没有表现出一丝的伤心，更是和一名叫海伦（Melanie Norris 饰）的美丽女子 来往密切。 在好友特德（阿伦·阿尔达 Alan Alda 饰）的帮助下，拉里开始了对于保罗的跟踪调查，但很快拉里便发现，特德和自己的妻子卡罗尔（黛安·基顿 Diane Keaton 饰）似乎有着暧昧的关系。随着调查的深入，事件的真相逐渐浮出了水面，为了掩盖自己所犯下的罪行，保罗绑架了卡罗尔，以此威胁拉里。在众人的搀和下，事情变得越来越复杂，而拉里唯一要做的，就是救出妻子。
