据导演保罗·哈吉斯描述，该片结构类似《撞车》，不过它是三条爱情线交织，故事以非常奇特的方式发生在纽约、巴黎和罗马三个城市。其中连姆·尼森饰演一名新闻记者，奥利维亚·王尔德的角色是一位纽约八卦专栏作家，其它演员尚未定角。
黛丝和艾蜜莉拼命地想为单身老爸麦斯找个漂亮美眉牵红线，有什么方法会比在圣塔摩尼卡的看板上登广告更有效率呢？然而，真爱可不是这么容易就能找到的，所以说麦斯和他的新女友布鲁克火花四溅的爱情路上，自然也免不了会有些小小的障碍... 首先是布鲁克的儿子莱恩，他和双胞胎初相见时发生了一些相处上的"歧见"；等到三人成为朋友后，便开始联手对付第二个障碍--麦斯惟利是图的经纪人奈吉。这三个古灵精怪的青少年会想出怎样异想天开的妙计来撮合他们的父母呢？
杰克（艾迪·墨菲 Eddie Murphy 饰）有一张刀子嘴，为了达到目的，他什么样的话都能说得出口。因为这张嘴，他失去了许多的朋友却并不以为意。一日，杰克的诳语得罪了辛加博士（克利夫·柯蒂斯 Cliff Curtis 饰)——一位神秘的宗教领袖，为了让杰克明白自己的缺点，他召唤来了一颗菩提树。 辛加告诉杰克，菩提树上有一千片叶子，杰克每说一个单词，就会有一片树叶凋落，当树叶掉光之时，就是杰克的临终之日。突然被剥夺了自由说话的权利的杰克痛苦不已，失去语言的庇护反而让杰克懂得了“谨言慎行”的真正含义，随着时间的流逝，杰克也开始明白，有些话不能乱说，可是有些话却不能不说。©豆瓣
Not long after John Chambers and his family arrive at their new home in a small country town of Pennsylvania, John begins to experience sleep paralysis. Lying there paralyzed, trapped within his own nightmare, other-worldly beings visit John. They are entities which exist in the darkest shadows of the night and can only be seen out of the corner of one's eye. These encounters begin to haunt John, transforming to plete terror as he discovers the entities' sole purpose... the abduction of his seven year old son. In the end, John will uncover the town's horrific secret, a portal on his land, and make one last attempt to save his son before the shadow people permanently take him away to their world.
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
After finishing her studies in literature, Claudia works as a cashier at the supermarket. She is a happy girl who counts her co-workers among her best friends. The only sore spot has been her love life, but now that her secret high school crush Martin has returned, Claudia’s hopes are ignited.
西西（李嘉欣 饰）、樱儿（李绮红 饰）和乐乐（范文芳 饰）是三位来自于不同地域，个性和身份都迥然不同的女性，然而，她们在感情道路上却遇到了相似的问题。西西和振南（方中信 饰）是青梅竹马的玩伴，两人感情一直十分要好，然而随着年岁渐长，西西和振南之间的分歧越来越多，两颗心的距离渐渐疏远，就在这个节骨眼上，西西邂逅了曾经的小学同学阿东（吴大维 饰），两人之间碰擦出了激情的火花。
凯丝（薇诺娜·瑞德 饰）和她的男友来到了红杉林中的一间偏远小屋，发现那里已经有一对年轻夫妇入住，很明显，这间小屋已经被预定了。由于无处可去，他们决定与这些陌生人共享小屋。当她的男友和这个年轻的女人神秘地消失时，凯丝有些不解，她找到了一个帮手，决定要寻找出事情的原因，但事实远比她想象的更诡异....
An anthology series in which each episode is a self-contained story set in a different world, with all stories linked together by an asteroid called the Metal Hurlant, which is passing close to the planet that is the focus of the current episode.