拉丁美洲盛行“哭泣的女人”拉洛罗娜的民间传说。曾经在危地马拉对当地土著人实行种族灭绝的退役将军恩里克如今被提起刑事诉讼；患老年痴呆症的将军越来越频繁地听到夜间有女人哭泣之声而产生日益严重的幻觉。虽然受到包庇而无罪释放，愤怒的民众却包围了他的住所，而随着一位神秘女仆的到来，诡异的拉罗罗娜诅咒正在一步步应验。
2005年美国惊悚大片，本片讲述了一个职业蛇头Maklovsky（Eric Roberts饰）的犯罪故事，他试图帮助一对俄国人偷渡到美国，然而计划破产。洛杉矶警察局局长Michael March（Gary Busey饰）正在调查一宗邮包炸弹的案件，此名邮包炸弹杀手破坏了该城平静的生活，有证据显示Maklovsky就是此名杀手，而特立独行的墨西哥警官也涉嫌参与其中……影片对美国司法界的黑暗面做了一定程度的犀利揭露，有着和《忠奸人》一样是非难辨、黑白不分的剧情和角色。号称和阿尔帕西诺一样深邃有型的美国性格男星，也是经典绿叶男配角Gary Busey在此片中联合曾被奥斯卡两度题名影帝的Eric Roberts在此片中上演了一幕幕错综复杂的警匪交战的戏码，两个老戏骨之间的较量势必让影片的表演增色不少。
The film tells the riveting story of a complex murder case, parallelly investigated by a police officer and an investigative journalist in their own way, who eventually cross paths to unravel secrets they never imagined.
After waking up from a year-long coma, an insecure young man must fight his controlling father in order to discover what really happened to his seemingly absent mother, as the true consequences of his past actions unravel before him.
