孤兒西蒙（方·基默 Val Kilmer 飾）幼時(shí)生活在教會(huì)孤兒院中，那里留給他的長蛇除了洗者約翰的新名字與嚴(yán)苛的懲罰外，還有撬門開鎖的能力。多奚仲后，西蒙已經(jīng)是著名的大盜，他劃籌措5000萬之后洗手不干，享受人生。西蒙受命遠(yuǎn)赴莫斯科盜取了政黨領(lǐng)袖兼石油寡頭伊萬拉德·舍博德茲加 Rade Serbedzija 飾）的芯片，自此與伊萬父子“結(jié)緣”。西為高額報(bào)酬再度接受任務(wù)，而這的雇主居然是伊萬父子，他們命蒙盜取足以解決能源危機(jī)的核技。西蒙喬裝接近掌握核技術(shù)的艾博士（伊麗莎白·蘇 Elisabeth Shue 飾），與博士暗生情愫的同時(shí)，應(yīng)付著伊萬子的棘手任務(wù)…?
Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy. She steals other people's souls and on her quest to immortality she tricks Jonathan into supporting her work, breaking him apart from his fiancé Rowena and pulling him into her dark, mysterious world. They settle down in an old manor by the Black Sea where Ligeia's everlasting presence slowly drives Jonathan to madness
