故事描述绰号「鬼魂」的主人公James St. Patrick（Omari Hardwick）不甘心只当一个小小的夜总会老板——他打算依靠自己的夜总会白手起家，在纽约城建立一个庞大的娱乐帝国并使之成为世界财富五百强企业。但是他面临一个问题：他除了白道身份之外还有一个黑道身份：一个大型贩毒集团中的大毒枭。当他计划离开犯罪世界专心做生意时，他的婚姻、家庭和事业全都受到了威胁，这迫使他不得不思考自己的人生道路。
“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。
