A group of tired
commuters have caught the last train home, ready to hop into their beds
for the night. However, their train soon veers off-course and crashes
into an abandoned tunnel. The three surviving commuters; withdrawn
mother Yi Ling, her son Lucas, and student Janice, are forced to band
together and survive the night, as well as avoid the mysterious monster
hunting them. Yi Ling still suffers from flashbacks to the car accident
that killed her husband and nearly took Lucas` life too. When Lucas is
snatched away by the monster, her maternal instincts are tested, and
Janice`s ideas of family are challenged as she remembers her difficult
relationship with her estranged father. Back at the subway control
headquarters, the engineers do their best to make sense of the situation
and rescue the survivors.
故事發生在美國內戰結束不久之後，曾經在前線奮勇殺敵的軍官基德上尉（湯姆·漢克斯 Tom Hanks 飾）如今成為了一名讀報人。他輾轉於一個又一個小鎮，為生活在那裡的居民們帶來來自世界各地的最新的消息。
一天，基德在德州遇見了一個名叫喬安娜（海倫娜·澤格爾 Helena
Zengel
飾）的小女孩，這個可憐的姑娘在6年前被印第安人擄走撫養，如今，重新獲得了自由的她將要回到叔叔和阿姨的身邊開始正常人的生活，雖然這並不是喬安娜真正想要的。基德和喬安娜之間產生了一種奇妙的聯結，於是，基德答應護送喬安娜去她應該去的地方，兩人要共同面對的，除了險惡的自然環境外，還有叵測的人心。
導演: 杜琪峰
