位于热带海域的一座无名小岛，蔚蓝大海与金色沙滩接壤之初，飞机破碎的残骸伴随着遇难乘客的恸哭哀号，揭开了一个神秘故事的序幕。2004年，815航班在前往目的地的途中突遭变故，坠毁在这座小岛，机上仅有杰克·谢帕德（马修·福克斯 Matthew Fox 饰）、凯特·奥斯汀（伊万杰琳·莉莉 Nicole Evangeline Lilly 饰）等48人侥幸逃生。最初的惊恐过后，不同年龄、职业、国别、民族、背景的一群人，在这个与世隔绝的逼仄且食物紧缺的空间内不可避免发生冲突与碰撞，与此同时，小岛上似乎还隐藏着某种未知且极具威胁的生物，而他们的一举一动又仿佛被一双双充满智慧但又神秘莫测的眼睛所监视。 不可预测的未来，接二连三的谜团，以及仿佛永远无法到来的救援队，让幸存者们不知所措……
“In the early 1990s, at the height of the international war on drugs, the government agency in charge of Britain’s borders, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, realized that they were losing the battle against drug smuggling. Their solution was extraordinary,” reads the logline. “In a top-secret operation, a small team of British Customs employees were sent undercover. Their task – to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs.” “They were not trained spies. These were ordinary men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the U.K, put through a basic training regime then told to build new identities in the criminal underworld. These identities were called Legends.
改编自维克托·拉瓦列2013年的小说《The Devil in Silver》。聚焦搬运工人Pepper（丹·史蒂文斯 Dan Stevens 饰），因为坏运气和坏脾气，他被送到了一所名为New Hyde的精神病院，里面满是被社会遗忘的人。Pepper想要获得自由，就必须面对与他作 对的病人、怀着阴森目的的医生，甚至恶魔本人。这里是地狱般的地方，任何事情都不是表面那样，Pepper必须直接面对一个以New Hyde里人们的苦痛来蓬勃壮大的存在，但这样可能会证明：最可怕的恶魔恰恰是他自己。
