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……

　　尼克（威尔·法瑞尔 Will Ferrell 饰）只是一届小小推销员，在为公司做牛做马16年后，他非但没有得到晋升，反而落得了被残忍开除的下场，而尼克所获得的遣散补偿，竟然只是一把小小的军刀。老天爷似乎存心要和尼克作对，失意的他回到家后，眼见出现的景象简直让他抓狂。原来，妻子对终日浑浑噩噩的尼克失去了信任，她将他的所有家当扫地出门后更换了门锁拒绝再与尼克相见。
　　无家可归的尼克所拥有的全部就是身边的那一堆破破烂烂的垃圾，不甘于现状的他决定利用自己推销员的技能搞一个户外大甩卖。然而，正是这大甩卖让尼克找到了生活的方向，同时将名为撒玛利亚（丽贝卡·豪尔 Rebecca Hall 饰）的漂亮女人带到了他的身边。

　　The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He is the last link in a huge energetic system and he becomes the binding bridge between the geopolitical problems of post-soviet space and the common people.
　　The economic devastation of the country had an enormous impact on the industrial workers and yet despite the upheaval, these people did not seize to love and suffer, to have and be friends and to enjoy their lives… In particular our resilient electrician, who possesses a wonderful and open heart. He not only brings electric light (which is often out) to the lives of the inhabitants of this small city, but he also spreads the light of love, loyalty, life and mainly laughter.

　　1995年冬天，加拿大魁北克正对是否独立进行第二次公投，一位连环杀手隐居在蒙特利尔的一个小镇上的公寓里，公寓里的居民必须想清楚哪个邻居是值得信任的，哪个邻居是危险的。