故事发生在美国新奥尔良市，涩爱一年一度的狂欢节正在如火如荼的进行之中。就在节日热烈的气氛被炒到顶峰之时，涩爱德沃公园突然发生了塌陷事故，市长助理艾莉森（杰西卡·斯汀 Jessica Steen 饰）很快就赶到了现场。可怕的事情并没有就此结束，入夜，塌陷事故接连发生，整个城市岌岌可危。万分危急之中，艾莉森只得向自己的男友马特（约翰·考伯特 John Corbett 饰）发出求助信号，马特是一名地质学家，因为曾经的一场矿坑塌陷事故而患上了创伤症，从此再也不问世事。马特经过专业的调查震惊的发现，这座城市即将整个陷入地下，为了将伤亡人数控制到最小，政府必须立刻疏散正在狂欢的人群。
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回复 :故事从中尉查尔斯·梅森准备回家过圣诞节开始讲起，梅森所坐的飞机途径新奥尔良时因恶劣天气不得不临时降落，在饭店里他被偶然结识的记者拉到夜总会拉斐特之家游玩，并在那里遇到了歌女杰基·拉蒙特（狄安娜·德宾 饰）。在与歌女谈话的过程中，梅森得知对方真正的名字是艾比盖尔·莫奈特，是三年前的杀人犯罗伯特·莫奈特（吉恩·凯利 饰）的妻子。伴着阴雨连绵的天气，艾比盖尔一点一点向梅森讲述了她和丈夫是如何相遇相爱的，他们曾经幸福的婚姻又是如何染上鲜血渐渐走向破灭的。
回复 :ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide: Between the seemingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community, first at church, then at the village festival, Fleischmann attacks that community's prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers' constant ribbing, bawdy humour, continuous gossip, and more than a hint of their slow-wittedness. With the return of a young man, their idle malice and childish clowning, always on the edge of unpleasantness, receive some focus: quite without foundation, the lad is victimised as a homosexual. The crippling conformity of their ingrained conservatism leads the villagers to reject anything 'different': a young widow is ostracised, more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals; a teacher is frozen out because she's educated; the casual destruction of the young 'homosexual' is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the '30s but the '70s; nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.
回复 :米迦尔是一名夜间医生。他的病人大多来自动荡的贫民区，比如其他医生根本不屑于接待的瘾君子。他不仅见证着病人们复杂的人际关系，自己也深陷生活的泥沼：不知道如何做一个好丈夫，和情人的关系也越来越不顺利。当一名药剂师亲戚拉他下水，一起贩卖虚假药物，他的人生彻底地脱轨了。又一个夜幕降临，他能不能把握住机会，做出正确的选择，守住自己的良知和底线？
