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　　Joseph Fulton, a well-regarded fifty-eight-year-old director of romantic comedies, wants to become assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery. He wants to work outdoors and be close to nature. Meanwhile, he thinks it’s important to have his last will and testament drawn up. But his highly dramatic actress girlfriend thinks he must be dying and that he is just too brave to tell anyone. The rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows—and some he doesn’t—are crowded into his small apartment to say their last farewells.

　　故事发生在1941年，希特勒支持的罗马尼亚铁卫军到处残害人民，迫害共产党员，阴谋进行颠覆，取代安东尼斯库政权，其中铁卫军队长巴拉班尤其嗜杀成性。安东尼斯库政权保安机关的警长（后升为警察总监）莫多万在罗马尼亚共产党支持下,单枪匹马深入虎穴和以巴拉班为首的铁卫军展开血腥斗杀......

　　焦急的母親菈葵兒（艾瑪蘇雷茲飾演）到銀行借錢，她必須在24小時內籌到35000歐元（約新台幣130萬元），否則她將再也見不到心愛的女兒。經過不斷懇求，銀行終於同意借款給她救急。不料在貸款手續快要完成之時，兩個蒙面搶匪闖入銀行，不但搶走所有錢，就連在場所有顧客與行員都成為人質。在分秒必爭的險境當中，菈葵兒決定無論付出什麼代價，都一定要拿到這筆錢全身而退…。究竟她該如何保住性命？又該如何籌錢保住女兒呢？

 依据1922年的凶杀案改编，描写贩卖私酒的匪帮和警方角力的故事。影史第一次以盗匪当主角，运用背面打光和烟雾，颇具艺术风格，广受欢迎，也预示40年代黑色电影的来临。