同一个晚上的同一个时间，同一个班级里的所有小孩，都神秘地失踪了，除了一个小孩。整个小镇都开始怀疑，究竟是谁或背后有什么原因，导致这些小孩都不见了？
Different Drummers is based on a true story about two unusual boys in Spokane, Washington in the mid 1960s. In this more innocent time, when body builder Jack Lalanne ruled the airwaves, the two heroes, a couple of elementary school students, make a bold attempt to triumph over mortality through friendship. Eleven year old David is slowing down and is now wheelchair-bound by muscular dystrophy, while Lyle can't stop speeding up. Back then, he was referred to as having a condition called MDB (Minimal Brain Dysfunction) but today he would be diagnosed with "Attention Deficit Disorder." Lyle wants more than anything to get David out of his wheelchair and running again, and he concocts a wild scheme involving a science project, some firemen, drummers, the school principal, a cop and a hand-walk across the school gymnasium, among other things. It works like this: Inspired by his TV idol, Lalanne, and his message of "intestinal fortitude and willpower," Lyle manages to convince David that ...
蒂莉（凯特·温丝莱特 Kate Winslet 饰）回到了阔别已久的家乡，在十岁的时候，她因为被控谋杀了同学斯图尔特（Rory Potter 饰）而遭到了整个小镇的驱逐，就连蒂莉的母亲茉莉（朱迪·戴维斯 Judy Davis 饰）也不相信蒂莉的清白。虽然这么多年过去了，但蒂莉在这里依然是一个不受欢迎的存在，邪恶的一员伊万（沙恩·伯恩 Shane Bourne 饰）依然掌握着小镇居民们生死存亡的命脉，与此同时，他还有着另一个身份——斯图尔特的父亲。 蒂莉在小镇上开了一家裁缝铺，随着时间的推移，她所售卖的款式新颖的服装和闪闪发亮的布料为她俘获了一批忠实的顾客。实际上，蒂莉一直没有放弃调查当年事件的真相，她并没有杀人，她坚信当年的那个凶手如今依然生活在这座小镇里。
