A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect....

约翰（赫米尔·希尼·古纳森 Hilmir Snær Guðnason 饰）是一名风度翩翩的儒雅大学教授，虽然看上去一表人才，但实际上，约翰有过一段非常失败的婚姻，这段婚姻给他的内心里带来了挥散不去的阴......