爱尔兰少女费丽莎(Elaine Cassidy 饰)的男友尊尼赴英国打工音信全无,父亲认为尊尼参加了英军而勃然大怒反对他们结婚,费丽莎无奈之下以怀孕之身赶赴英国寻人,一无所获之际遇到了乔(Bob Hoskins 饰)。乔因依恋母亲,虽年过半百仍未婚娶,他留有所有母亲主持烹饪节目的录像带每日观看。乔为费丽莎的寻人之旅提供了多次帮助,但暗中却偷走了女孩的钱,费丽莎无处可去只得借宿乔家中,乔为方便接触费丽莎,虚构出在医院奄奄一息的妻子。原来乔有搭讪街头落魄女孩,然而把她们诓骗至家中杀死的爱好,乔又一次即将达到目的时,两名传教人员的到来让形势出现了转机…… 本片获2000年加拿大吉尼奖最佳摄影奖等多项褒奖。A lonely middle-aged catering manager spends all of his time studying tapes of an eccentric TV chef. Meanwhile, a young woman is making her way from Ireland to find her boyfriend, who moved to England to get a job in a lawnmower factory. On arrival, she makes an early contact with the caterer, who recommends a boarding room to her. Slowly, it is revealed that the caterer has in fact befriended and subsequently abused more than a dozen young women. He, of course, now sets his sights on this woman. Much of the story is told in flashbacks, revealing how each of the characters grew to the point where they now find themselves. However, the drama of the character interaction is more important to director, Atom Egoyan, than the potential horror of the situation.