In the summer of ’76, as President Jimmy Carter pledges to give government back to the people, tensions run high in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood where the Black Panthers once flourished. When Marcus returns—having bolted years earlier—his homecoming isn’t exactly met with fanfare. His former movement brothers blame him for an unspeakable betrayal. Only his best friend’s widow, Patricia, appreciates Marcus’s predicament, which both unites and paralyzes them. As Patricia’s daughter compels the two comrades to confront their past, history repeats itself in dangerous ways.
　　Night Catches Us masterfully reckons with the complexity of its characters’ revolutionary ideologies and internal desires. Bell-bottoms, Afros, potlucks, and Caddies set the scene as the film potently interweaves political media with an evocative soul-inspired score, summoning a vivid sense of place and time. The golden light that bathes characters’ faces seems to express the promise—and elusiveness—of the necessary change Marcus and Patricia struggle for so dearly—each by separate means.

　　疗养院心理医生萧听琴（唐一菲 饰）近来厄运接连而至，在为女病人沈流霜（应采儿 饰）作心理治疗时，沈反客为主，用一衶奇幻的魔力征服了萧听琴，以致萧毎天挥动手枪，进入了俄罗斯轮盘游戏中不能自拔。面临与甄杉凜（冯德伦 饰）歩入婚姻，萧听琴仍陷在陈年旧爱中无法解脱，甄的出轨引出一段匪夷所思的多角恋绯闻。婚后虽信誓旦旦，俩人却分房而睡，冥冥之中象有一双无形的手在控制着双方的神经，新婚燕尔，二人只能靠在网上互吐爱意，身为警方督察的甄杉凛该怎样看待这场奇异的婚姻，难道他是置身在外的看客不成？沈流霜缜密地控制着萧听琴的大脑，行为失控的萧听琴将如何找到幸福的出口……

　　在好友夫妇克莱德（约翰·奥提兹 John Ortiz 饰）和露西（达芬妮·鲁宾-维佳 Daphne Rubin-Vega 饰）的介绍下，杰克（菲利普·塞默·霍夫曼 Philip Seymour Hoffman 饰）认识了漂亮可爱的女孩康妮（艾米·莱安 Amy Ryan 饰），长久以来的单身生活让杰克立刻就坠入了情网，展开了追求康妮的一系列准备。
　　对于杰克的热情攻势，康妮十分受用，在她的梦想里，在船上来一场独特的浪漫约会对拉近两人之间的关系来说必不可少，而就在康妮和杰克的感情稳步升级之时，克莱德和露西之间的感情却发生了破裂，他们之间究竟发生了什么？与此同时，这一变故让杰克明白，独自面对灵魂和感情的深渊是每一个人都无法逃脱的宿命。

　　影片讲述了面临毕业的大学生，在亲情、爱情、友情、事业上遇到挫折后，表现的坚持、不放弃的坚守精神，他们蓬勃乐观、积极向上，就像独自在黑夜中的夜来香，永远喜欢温暖、在阳光充足的地方盛开，而只在夜间才花香怒放的它们同样诠释着：暗战在最黑暗的地方，依旧让人瞩目的魅力。