设计师爱丽丝（海瑟·格拉汉姆 饰）和男友相恋很久，每天过着重复的生活，仿佛一对老夫老妻，失去了恋爱的激情。一次偶然在街上行走时，和亚当（约瑟夫·费因斯 饰）擦肩而过，眼神有了片刻的交汇，爱丽丝便彻底沦陷，甚至直接跟亚当回家发生了关系。也许是工作的关系，爱丽丝需要不断被激发出新的创意，作为一名职业登山运动员的亚当激情满满，荷尔蒙旺盛、冷酷又神秘，符合爱丽丝的所有幻想，爱丽丝便同男友分手，选择和亚当结婚

婚后，两人到一处偏僻深山度蜜月，，亚当的各种创意性生活令爱丽丝完全沉醉，但同时也发现亚当有很多秘密，报社发布了亚当强奸女性的新闻，亚当的姐姐也经常暗示爱丽丝，说亚当有暴力倾向，要求爱丽丝离开亚当。爱丽丝在不安与恐惧中开始调查自己的丈夫，发现亚当竟然在青年时与姐姐发生了一场不伦恋……

The designer Alice (played by Heather Graham) has been in love with her boyfriend for a long time, and they live a repetitive life every day, just like an old couple. Wife, lost the passion of love. When walking on the street by chance, she passed Adam (Joseph Fiennes), and her eyes met for a moment, and Alice fell completely, and even went home directly with Adam. Maybe it’s because of work. Alice needs to be constantly stimulated with new ideas. As a professional mountaineer, Adam is full of passion, strong hormones, cold and mysterious, which fits all of Alice’s fantasies. Alice broke up with her boyfriend, Choose to marry Adam

After marriage, the two went to a remote mountain for their honeymoon. Alice was completely intoxicated by Adam's creative life. But at the same time, it is also discovered that Adam has many secrets. The newspaper published the news that Adam raped women. Adam's sister also often hinted at Alice, saying that Adam had violent tendencies, and asked Alice to leave Adam. Alice began to investigate her husband in anxiety and fear, and found that Adam had an affair with his sister when he was young...