痛苦的回憶一次又一次侵襲著退役FBI探員，喬（瓦昆菲尼克斯 飾），讓他不斷掙扎於過去和現實之中。僅管長期活在暴力的陰影下，喬以追查非法交易中的失蹤女孩為業，成為合約殺手，不擇手段的高成功率讓他在私法界聲名大噪。眾議院議員以大筆現金作為代價，請他拯救被綁票的13歲女兒妮娜。喬一如既往地完成救援，卻在釋放人質前發現所有相關人士皆慘遭殺害......任務瀕臨失控邊緣，試圖走出內心創傷的喬，所踏出的每一步，都將他更拖往發瘋狂的恐懼中。什麼是現實？什麼是夢？奔跑在同一個迴圈裡的喬，能帶著妮娜和自己逃出來嗎？
After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops who answered their call. He helps them install a security system, begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol angling to pry into the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help.
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
Snooze buttons, sunlight…the inescapable cacophony of alarm alerts: waking up in the morning is a battle between the present and the future state of mind. A dream-like war with yourself and other objects that seem to take a life of its own.
The Pink Panther has problems waking up in the morning and buys a cuckoo clock, but it causes more problems.
