Cuando Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce), el famoso mago escapista, llega a Edimburgo en su gira mundial, ofrece una gran recompensa a la persona capaz de ponerse en contacto con el espíritu de su madre recientemente fallecida. Mary (Catherine Zeta-Jones), una atractiva y misteriosa médium y parapsicóloga escocesa, acepta el desafío atraída por el dinero. Houdini hará todo lo posible por desenmascarar a la misteriosa mujer, pero no podrá evitar sentirse cada vez más atraído por ella...

Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper.

Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on graduation night, Placid decides to make a bid for the elusive normal life. To his parents' horror, he gets a normal job.

Mel is transferred from a juvenile to an adult jail and is taken under the wing of Mark, Australia's most hated criminal, and Warren, a soon-to-be-paroled inmate. The parental love triangle that forms between them becomes their doom.