女记者瑞秋(凯特·贝金赛尔 Kate Beckinsale 饰)从线人处获得了一份情报涉及政府一次相当不光彩的行为。在丈夫雷(大卫·休默 David Schwimmer 饰)支持下刊登了这起新闻报道。政府最终以泄露国家 机密的罪行将瑞秋推上被告席,主审该案件的则是自负的检察官帕顿(马特·狄龙 Matt Dillon 饰)。在法庭上,面对帕顿的层层逼问,瑞秋坦然地叙述了整个事件的前前后后,公众心中的天平也开始往瑞秋方面倾斜,但是艾伦坚持要求瑞秋必须说出资料的提供者是谁,瑞秋逐渐地陷入进退两难的境地。艾伦开始向舆论和瑞秋的家人施加压力,而雷也渐渐地抵抗不住国家给予的压力,建议瑞秋屈服于国家。但瑞秋向雷表达了自己的坚持:真相至上。
The film tells the story of single mother “Kara” (Elizabeth Roberts) who moves from New York to the quiet countryside with her two children for a job opportunity she can’t afford to turn down. The family moves into their humble new guesthouse. Kara begins her work as a private nurse to “Walter,” (Bruce Davison) a man stricken with multiple sclerosis and an appraiser of rare antiquities with a secretive past. Her teenage son, Jesse, (Arman Darbo) is unhappy about this most of all. Losing his friends and moving to the middle of nowhere hasn’t made his job of looking after his little sister, “Cambria,” (Chloe Perrin) any easier. Doom precedes them. “Akiba,” (Treva Etienne) a shady international associate of Walter’s, brings with him a mysterious relic of ancient origin. “Kara” encounters run in with a local sheriff played by genre veteran actor Denise Crosby. All too quickly they discover the relic contains more than just legends. Inside, waits a terrifying creature born of ancient darkness and pure instinct…a pre-historic cave Spider unlike the modern world has ever seen.