高中生萨迪和妹妹索耶尔沉浸在丧母之痛中，但却无法从身为心理治疗师的父亲威尔身上得到任何安慰。某天一名绝望的病患前来拜访威尔寻求治疗，却意外带来骇人的超自然生物，一连串不合理的事件接连发生，恐惧将吞噬他们一家人。
In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed of hope. The future of Last Arc is for him to discover, Cygnus ventures into a hostile landscape in search of an answer for his people. On this journey of encountering many traps and dangers, Cygnus discovers what has been hunting him is his identity.
艾尔和李是实打实的发小，感情要好得不得了，不过艾尔喜欢上了李的哥哥，天下可能要大乱。影片是童星乔伊·金的转型之作，卡司还包括雅各布·艾洛蒂、乔尔·科特尼，莫利·林沃德也在本片客串。
战败后的日本，真田（志村乔饰）是名喜欢喝酒的贫民社区医生，他擅长治疗肺结核。一天黑社会头目松永（三船敏郎饰）由于手上受伤找他治疗，谁知被真田看出了肺结核的症状。他劝松永去照X光检查一下，可松永不愿接受自己生病的事实，反而大骂真田一通并争执起来。但是松永回去以后症状越来越严重，拍片后证实确实是肺结核，嘴上逞强的他还是接受了真田的治疗。 然而，松永的黑社会大哥冈田（山本礼三郎饰）从监狱里出来，他逐渐取代松永在黑帮里的位置并拥有了一切，病入膏肓的松永只能孤注一掷……
