因为父母离异,贝拉(克里斯汀•斯图尔特 Kristen Stewart 饰)随父亲来到小镇生活。在新学校里,贝拉留意到一群举止诡异的怪人,他们特立独行,很是神秘。在实验课上,她遇到了怪人中的一个——金发帅哥爱德华(罗伯特•帕丁森 Robert Pattinson 饰),他俊朗的外形与出众的谈吐令她着迷。在交往中,贝拉渐渐对爱德华产生了感情,但其他怪人对她心存戒备。与此同时,小镇里接连发生死亡事件,贝拉的父亲是警察,负责调查此案。然而,警方的介入并没有阻止死亡威胁的蔓延。在一次意外中,爱德华救出了贝拉。从此,她发现他拥有异于常人的超能力,开始怀疑对方是杀人凶手。在事实面前,爱德华对她坦白,自己是素食吸血鬼,所以凶手另有其人。在杀人凶案的羁绊中,一场人鬼之恋由此展开……
This is an interesting yet bizarre little tale of a fictional (as far as I know, anyway) experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger work-force/army, etc. It's a very in-depth character study of the main character, who tries to fit into a world that she (now 'he') doesn't really understand, especially since she's now a man ... Stalin dislikes the results of the experiments and has the scientist killed. The main character then goes off to live a life as a simple, unknown everyday Soviet, but is inexplicably drawn into larger and larger schemes (somewhat reminiscent of "Forrest Gump" in that way). (s)He has run-ins with different important characters, including his ex-boyfriend from his days of being a woman, as well as going on a demented quest for the nurse with whom he possibly fell in love after the operation... However, he is trapped in his life as an important Soviet married man, and in the end makes a huge sacrifice for his country (unwillingly), and the movie goes from there to an ending that is possibly happy, yet still somehow incredibly depressing.