以令人匪夷所思的水箱掙脫術聞名世界的偉大魔術師－胡迪尼（蓋皮爾斯飾演），在他13年的魔術生涯當中，一直對母親過世時沒來的及見她最後一面、聽到她的遺言感到十分憂愁。因此，在蘇格蘭的巡迴演出中，胡迪尼提出了一個獎賞：誰能夠讓他與母親的靈魂接觸並說出遺言，即可贏得1萬元美金。 瑪麗（凱薩琳麗塔瓊斯）是位單親媽媽，為了生活與女兒－班姬合作以靈媒的身分到處詐騙錢財，消息傳到瑪麗耳中，倆人決定將目標鎖定在胡迪尼身上，當瑪麗越深入胡迪尼的生活，朝夕相處，倆人之間慢慢滋生愛情，不可思議的事情也不斷地發生…。 而胡迪尼身邊得力助手─舒格曼先生，在知道瑪麗的底細後，想盡一切辦法逼瑪麗離開。一場魔術師與靈媒的魔幻對決；一段撲朔迷離的浪漫情緣，即將解開謎底！

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.

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.

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