故事发生在1917年,威尔(麦肯齐·阿斯丁 Mackenzie Astin 饰)过着和父亲杰克(约翰·泰瑞 John Terry 饰)相依为命的生活,不幸的是,意外发生了,杰克失去了生命,留下形单影只的威尔,他不仅要想方设法自己照顾自己,还要想办法照看父亲位于南达科他州的农场,他最需要也最缺少的,就是钱。 为了赚钱,威尔决定去温尼伯参加奖金丰厚的雪橇犬马拉松比赛。尽管获得了奈德(奥古斯特·斯彻伦伯格 August Schellenberg 饰)的帮助,但威尔依旧面临着巨大的挑战。恶劣的天气,频发的事故,五百英里的遥远路途,在重重的困难之间,身形单薄的威尔能够顺利到达终点,完成自己的愿望吗?
A dark comedy about one man's overreaction! Roma's (Anthony Michael Hall) perfect life unravels when his foreman goes missing and he chooses to fire the wrong guy.
The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.