阿里是一位苏格兰场（指英国首都伦敦警务处总部）的警察，他出生于巴基斯坦的拉合尔，之后娶了一个英国女人，并育有两个孩子。在2005年7月伦敦连环爆炸案发生后，阿里奉命去调查一个相关的嫌疑犯，工作进展的很不顺利，同时身为穆斯林的他，尽管已经在苏格兰场工作多年，但是由于爆炸案，也受到了同事们异样的注视。虽然最后事情水落石出，但是期间受到的歧视与人们对爆炸案的恐惧，还是让他久久难以释怀。
富家子弟任斌一直与大哥唐坤一起混社会，可是最近一直忧心忡忡，他总能看见鬼，而且那个女鬼与唐坤等人有着莫大的关系！虽然唐坤百般安慰，可任斌撞鬼的次数越来越多，在崩溃的边缘，一位神秘的萨满仙师走入了任斌的生活，随着萨满法师与厉鬼的较量，一场隐瞒了三年之久的强奸杀人血案，渐渐露出真相！
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career. Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.) As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played. The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument). Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
