出生于巴基斯坦移民家庭的高中生纳兹（里兹·阿迈德 Riz Ahmed 饰），偷偷开走父亲的出租车去赴一场朋友爽约的派对。他中途迷路，焦急之际搭载了带着落寞绝望表情的女孩安吉拉（索菲亚·布莱克-德埃利亚 Sofia Black-D'Elia 饰）。霓虹闪烁的海边，两人互吐 心声。纳兹随对方回到家中，在迷幻的氛围中一切自然而然地发生。可当他醒来时，却发现安吉拉已被人残忍杀害。他惊慌失措，夺路而逃，结果半路因酒驾遭到逮捕，继而因涉嫌杀害安吉拉遭到指控。在押期间，善于为边缘人辩护盈利的小律师约翰·斯通（约翰·特托罗 John Turturro 饰）决定帮他洗脱罪名。临近退休的警长丹尼斯（比尔·坎普 Bill Camp 饰）和检察官海伦（珍妮·柏林 Jeannie Berlin 饰）则磨刀霍霍，发誓要坐实纳兹的罪名。
被人称为有着“小鹿斑比似的大眼睛”的纳兹，更要在炼狱般的牢房内接收黑暗和罪恶的洗礼……
“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。
