故事发生在20世纪康涅狄格州的三河市，多米尼克（马克·鲁法洛 Mark Ruffalo 饰）是一个陷入了水深火热之中的男人。他曾经拥有一个幸福美满的家庭，却因为刚刚出生的孩子的意外死亡而导致了和妻子之间感情的破裂，不仅如此，多米尼克的弟弟托马斯（马克·鲁弗洛 Mark Ruffalo 饰）患有妄想型精神分裂症，常常会做出伤害自己的举动，需要身为哥哥的多米尼克处处提防。
在弟弟最终还是自杀身亡之后，多米尼克决定从自己的血脉中寻找答案，于是开始研究在很早之前就离开了他的父亲的真实身份，由此发现了自己家族所隐瞒的有关遗产的秘密。
“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。
