电影筛选妻子去世后暂时和儿子一起生活的岳父。儿子很不高兴，但善良的里科表示看在岳父的份上，他愿意接受。但她公公看她的眼神有些奇怪。那一天，里科夫妇时隔许久，第一次公开他们的感情，场面激昂。但洗完澡后，我再次感受到了那双阴险的目光……
An expert at sleight of hand and with a keen eye for identifying charlatans and tricksters, our story begins as Harry has fallen on hard times in recent years, professionally and ethically losing his way. He’s resorted to making his living as a fake medium and fraudulent ghost hunter, conducting séances for unsuspecting families who think their lives have been made a misery by ghostly mischief making. Harry’s duplicitous lifestyle has also had serious consequences when after leading a séance for a tragic soldier a young man commits suicide on the doorstep of Harry’s home. A couple of months later, Harry is offered the chance to investigate the haunting of a local MP’s home as the case threatens to ruin the politician’s reputation. With the prospects of leading his political party, Edward Curtis can ill-afford the scandal as his wife Grace begins to hallucinate and act bizarrely and very much out of character as she believes their family home to be haunted. There’s a possibility Grace may be committed to an asylum in scandalous circumstances if Harry doesn’t take on the investigation. Ghosts from Harry’s past influence his decision to take the case and he begins to think it might be time to take a new path. Together with the Curtis family maid, Sarah Grey, whose own mother has fallen prey to con artist mediums in the past, their detection and investigative skills complement one another and they make a formidable partnership. Smart, driven and open-minded, Sarah is a strong-minded woman who can handle herself when unravelling the mysteries behind the hauntings, which are seriously affecting Grace’s health and well-being. Harry also calls on the services of his old friend, Albert, during the investigation. An African pharmacist with a sideline in voodoo con-artistry, Albert has a keen interest in medical and scientific discoveries, which Harry exploits to the maximum. Journalist Vernon Wall also finds himself in Harry’s orbit. Cynical and hard-bitten, although clever at winning the trust of the people he’s interviewing, Vernon is keen to learn about Harry’s techniques and sensing a political scandal sets out to inveigle his way into his life by extracting information from Sarah.
故事发生在人头攒动的大都市纽约，在这里，生活着一位名叫伊莎贝尔（艾米·欧文 Amy Irving 饰）的姑娘，在这个物欲横流的城市里，伊莎贝尔的特质则显得尤为珍贵，她是书店的店员，整日博览群书，对知识的渴望永无止境。 可是，正直善良的伊莎贝尔在她祖母的眼中俨然就是一位“问题少女”，因为已经到了成家年龄的她似乎并没有任何想要结婚的打算。就这样，着急的祖母风风火火地开始为伊莎贝尔物色起了对象，通过祖母的牵线搭桥，伊莎贝尔结识了名为山姆（彼得·里格特 Peter Riegert 饰）的犹太男子。山姆是一名小贩，他对秀外慧中的伊莎贝尔很快一见钟情，可是，伊莎贝尔却并不这么觉得。
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