四个生活在英国的穆斯林青年：奥马尔（Riz Ahmed 饰）、白人巴里（Nigel Lindsay 饰）、瓦伊以及费萨尔正在用一只玩具枪做道具拍摄圣战视频，献身圣战是他们狂热的梦想。奥马尔厌倦了巴里那吃电话卡避免被追踪的无厘头理论，与瓦伊远赴巴基斯坦的穆斯林游击战士训练营学习，奥马尔和瓦伊的苦逼训练生活很快因为误打战友而终止了；留在英国的巴里物色同志，找到了在公开场合质疑英国时政的阿拉伯青年哈桑，一起和使用变声大法收集过氧化剂制造炸弹的费萨尔研制炸弹。回国的奥马尔谎称接到制作炸弹的任务，将其他人置于自己的控制下。费萨尔由于失手被炸身亡，剩下的四名穆斯林战士将目标锁定在伦敦马拉松上……Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that-while terrorism is about ideology-it can also be about idiots.