90年代的哈城，刚刑满释放的徐铁（包贝尔 饰）偶遇装哑的舞女百灵（张梦露 饰），两人也在几次偶遇和深夜相伴中渐生情愫。直到除夕夜的温暖，让他们相互靠近，却又因现实隔阂，家人误解而屡屡拉扯。百灵为父还债的秘密账本，让徐铁读懂了她的苦衷，雷力的迫害更是将两人推向绝境，徐铁以命相搏救出被囚的百灵，终赢来家人祝福。这对孤独灵魂，在世俗重压下，以真爱焐热了彼此的人生。
男主人公塞吉·布伦（让·雷诺 Jean Reno 饰）是一名警察，他追踪不法分子方法很不一般。在追踪珠宝抢劫犯的案中，塞吉的上司把他的编队隔离出来，事后证明，这是劫匪的调虎离山计。他独自行动跟上犯人，却遇到激励火拼，伤亡惨重，许多同事牺牲，他是否可以用自己的方法破案呢？
Based on the novel by Karel Capek, the prominent Czech writer of the early 20th century who coined the word robot for his play R.U.R., the story revolves around a discovery of Krakatit - a powerful explosive - by Prokop, an experimental scientist who, following an accidental explosion in his lab, slips in and out of delirium. When he realises that, in a delirious period, he has given the formula for making Krakatit to one of his colleagues, he tries to find the man, who does not realize how dangerous a thing Krakatit is. In the process, he nearly gives his discovery away again to foreign interests, a group of anarchists, and even greater forces of darkness...
