As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.

一群穷困潦倒的大学生为了赚取外快，开办了一家“捉鬼”公司，当地的老人真的以为他们有捉鬼的能力，当他们被雇佣去一家老旧的孤儿院捉鬼时，一些令人不安的事也开始悄然发生....

　　Set during the Blitz in 1940s London. After writing twelve Poirot novels in six years, Agatha Christie should be a rich woman. Instead she’s struggling to make ends meet. As the money runs out, Agatha concocts a plan to kill off her most famous creation and sell the manuscript to a superfan. When Agatha’s would-be-buyer suffers a heart attack, it seems unfortunate but benign. When her manuscript is stolen, a wider conspiracy begins to take shape. As the bombs fall and she investigates, the danger of her situation becomes apparent; Agatha herself is the killer’s next target.

年轻的英国导演乔史蒂芬森（现在正在一部大肆宣传的诺埃尔·科沃德传记片的前期制作中，该片将由伊恩·麦凯伦和凡妮莎·雷德格雷夫主演）首次登场，讲述了乐观的15岁的理查德（因学习困难而困扰）和他不安、虐待他人的哥哥。当理查德爱上17岁的安娜贝尔（亚斯敏·佩吉，来自潜艇）时，兄弟之间的关系被拉长到了临界点，家庭秘密被揭露，理查德的生活终于开始改变方向。