In 1905, French seminarian Bruno Reidel is found guilty of murdering a child. At the request of the doctors observing him, he writes his memoirs to explain his action.
15世纪中叶,作风彪悍残忍的穿刺王弗拉德(卢克·伊万斯 Luke Evans 饰)在土耳其苏丹的扶持下回到故乡特兰西瓦尼亚,建立起一个和平祥和的国家。然而此时此刻他仍受制于土耳其苏丹王穆罕默德(多米尼克·库珀 Dominic Cooper 饰),苏丹要求弗拉德献上一千个男孩充军,包括他儿子在内的孩子们都将成为嗜血统治者的牺牲品。不愿孩子重走自己当年血腥之路的弗拉德奋起反抗,屠杀使者。为了赢得战争的胜利,他闯入神秘而恐怖的断牙山,期望借助传说中的怪物之手击退土耳其的入侵者。
他为了国家不惜抛弃良知和灵魂,由此注定了千古悲剧的开始。吸血鬼德古拉的传说由此上演
瑟古德·马歇尔是第一位担任美国最高法院大法官的非裔美国人,他从1967年开始在最高法院服务、直到1991年退休为止;在任此职之前,马歇尔担任「全国有色人种协进会」(NAACP)的律师,协助1954年废除种族隔离政策的案件 -「布朗控诉投陴卡教育局案」(Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas) - 赢得胜诉;他终其一生都致力于运用法律争取公民权和社会正义。
瑟古德·马歇尔是美国20世纪的一位英雄:他承接并胜诉的"布朗诉教育委员会案"导致美国废除了种族隔离法。他后来成为美国最高法院法官,始终致力于增进包括少数族裔、妇女和移民在内的全体美国人的权利。
For decades of using ruqyah to help people, Ustadz Qodrat failed to ruqyah his son, Alif Al-Fatanah, possessed by a demon named Assuala. Looking for answers to his worries, Qodrat returns to the boarding school in the village where he studied. He finds the place is no longer what it used to be, with unexplained disturbances. Qodrat is again faced with the trauma of having to ruqyah Alif Amri, Yasmin's youngest child, whom he cannot refuse because of the similarity of his name to his late son. In a soul-crushing test, Qodrat again faces the fury of Assuala. Qodrat has to choose between obeying his anger or re-finding his faith.