瑞秋（安娜·钱斯勒 Anna Chancellor 饰）是一位富有而善良的女性，收养了五个孩子。一天，她被人发现在自己家中遭到了谋杀，警方在犯罪现场找到了她的其中一名养子杰克（安东尼·鲍伊 Anthony Boyle 饰）的指纹，杰克被视为最大嫌疑人，遭到了逮捕。可是，就在庭审即将开始之际，杰克在狱中死于一场意外，这宗案件就以杰克是凶手为结果就此盖棺定论。
一晃眼十八个月过去，当瑞秋的丈夫里昂（比尔·奈伊 Bill Nighy 饰）即将和他的未婚妻携手步入婚姻殿堂之际，一位名为亚瑟（卢克·崔德威 Luke Treadaway 饰）的男子出现在了他们面前，并且带来了一个爆炸性的消息——杀死瑞秋的凶手并非杰克，而是另有他人。
“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。
