一个精明的乐器商扮作音乐教授Prof. Harold Hill,来到衣阿华州的小镇River City;他以他的高超技巧和超级感染力,成功的说服居民小镇需要成立一个男孩乐团,他开始让整个小镇疯狂,除了2个人--小镇镇长,钢琴女教师暨图书管理员。事实上,Harold根本不是什么教授,他甚至连一个音符都不懂...穿帮在即,Harold如何应付呢?
San Francisco Tong hatchet man Wong must execute his boyhood friend Sun. Sun knew his time was up and wrote out his will just prior to Wong showing up at his door. When Sun realizes Wong is there to kill me he tries to set his friend's mind at ease by telling him he is the beneficiary of all Sun's worldly possessions and convinces Wong to promise to take care of Sun's young daughter, Toya San who Sun has bequeathed to become his wife. Years later, when she becomes of age, she marries Wong, now a powerful figure, though she loves evil Harry. When Wong learns Toya will be happier with Harry he allows them to leave. Still later Wong learns that Harry has been deported and since Toya could not prove she was married to someone else she too was deported to China. When Wong learns of this, he goes after them.
男孩托马斯(迪伦·欧布莱恩 Dylan O'Brien 饰)在电梯中醒来,奇怪的是他除了名字之外什么都记不得。当电梯打开,他来到了一个陌生的地方“林间空地”。这里四周被高大的石头墙包围着,墙内住着许多男孩,有纽特(托马斯·桑斯特 Thomas Sangster 饰)、查克(布雷克·库珀 Blake Cooper 饰)、米诺(李基弘 Ki Hong Lee 饰)等人,他们都被困在迷宫里,而墙外还有一群巨大的怪兽威胁着。一天,电梯为他们送来了一个女孩特雷莎(卡雅·斯考达里奥 Kaya Scodelario 饰),她是来这里的第一个女孩。此后,迷宫逐渐开始发生变化,一切都陷入了混乱中,托马斯和特雷莎决定一起走上破解迷宫之路,找出迷宫背后令人不寒而栗的秘密。
影片改编自詹姆斯·达什纳撰写的同名反乌托邦科幻小说三部曲的第一本。