When a beguiling young woman moves in next door, a quiet neighborhood is awakened, bringing people face to face with their secrets and, ultimately, themselves.
Single mother Elaine is disturbed by her son Martin's aggressive behaviour, she visits his late father's estranged family in small-town Luxembourg, which hides a much darker nature. When she realizes that Martin could become like them, Elaine is forced into a desperate fight for her son's future.
On leaving work, while Darío Manzano is taking drugs in the car, he receives an unexpected visit from Ginés Chega. At the same time that he points a gun at Darío′s face, he asks about his friend Abraham "El Gitano", whom he accuses of having stolen a lot of money.
Manzano, without knowing what happened, cannot answer anything about it, and Ginés angrily gives Darío a head butt ...
艾迪（汤姆·哈迪 Tom Hardy 饰）是一位深受观众喜爱的新闻记者，和女友安妮（米歇尔·威廉姆斯 Michelle Williams 饰）相恋多年，彼此之间感情十分要好。安妮是一名律师，接手了生命基金会的案件，在女友的邮箱里，艾迪发现了基金会老板德雷克（里兹·阿迈德 Riz Ahmed 饰）不为人知的秘密。为此，艾迪不仅丢了工作，女友也离他而去。
之后，生命基金会的朵拉博士（珍妮·斯蕾特 Jenny Slate 饰）找到了艾迪，希望艾迪能够帮助她阻止德雷克疯狂的罪行。在生命基金会的实验室里，艾迪发现了德雷克进行人体实验的证据，并且在误打误撞之中被外星生命体毒液附身。回到家后，艾迪和毒液之间形成了共生关系，他们要应对的是德雷克派出的一波又一波杀手。
