警官麦克在调查一起凶杀案。此时有一男子因和警方发生冲突而被逮捕。这名男子被指控曾强奸并杀害了12名小男孩，同时他也是这起凶杀案的重要嫌疑人。在寻找证据的过程中，麦克开始被奇怪的梦困扰。而在与疑犯展开交谈的同时，案情也变得愈发地扑朔迷离……Long wanted serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police strike. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him. He associates a brutal murder case with the killer's method and hopes to close the case by getting a confession from Engel. Instead the clash of the two totally opposite characters shakes Michaels beliefs to the ground, turning him into a dangerous threat, an enemy to the people around him.