Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets "The Board" of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program. Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer. He is injected with a synthetic nanomaterial and suffocated, only to wake up with restored use of his legs, yet alone in a steel cell in the first spoke of an experimental apparatus - The Wheel. A series of assailants inflict a multitude of damage to Mills' body and torment his mind, yet the synthetic nanomaterial not only restores his damaged organs, it re-engineers his strength. The experiment might be designed to kill, but Mills is determined to survive - and get back to his daughter before The Board finds her first.

查理(亚当·桑德勒 Adam Sandler饰)是一个9•11的直接受害者，他的妻儿和爱狗都在这场灾难中丧生。查理从此一蹶不振，严重的自闭抑郁。他已经习惯了每天踩着电动滑车，戴着大耳机在街头行尸走肉般游荡，心灵巨大的创伤让他回归不了正常的生活。 艾伦（唐·钱德尔 Don Cheadle 饰）则是一个表面看来非常幸福的男人，有成功的事业和美满的家庭，然而他承受的生活压力是常人无法理解的，他的内心在暗暗苦撑。 直到有一天，艾伦在街头遇上了查理。得知这个老同学为何变得如此颓唐后，艾伦心里便下定决心也帮他一把，让他从低谷中走出来。他们一起谈心，游戏，慢慢的发现彼此的心灵都从窒息中苏醒过来。©豆瓣

1973年美国康涅狄格州，感恩节快要到来，一场冰风暴也即将到来。平凡乏味的家庭生活使中年夫妻厌倦，丈夫本•胡德（凯文•克莱恩饰）一直在引诱邻居珍妮特•哈珀，而妻子（琼•艾伦饰）对丈夫的谎言也早已不耐烦了。儿子保罗（托比•马奎尔饰）迷恋着学校里最有人缘的那位女生。女儿温迪（克里斯蒂娜•里奇）兴趣于电视里的水门事件听证会。
　　冰风暴的夜晚，夫妻两个去朋友家参加一个鸡尾酒会，鸡尾酒会的一个重要内容是进行换房间钥匙的游戏。在酒会结束后，每个妻子都可以和别家男人结成新欢。而他们儿子则赶去面对一场诱惑与考验，女儿正陶醉在同邻家男孩子的性游戏中…