和蔼善良的弗兰克·朗福勋爵（JimBroadbent饰）是英国政府上议院的领袖，同时也是探监慈善基金的积极倡导者。在他的帮助下，无数罪行累累的犯人幡然醒悟，痛改前非，迎来了崭新的人生。就在1965年，一连串令人发指的凶杀案震惊全英。年轻男子伊恩·布莱迪...

你在上帝面前的彻底坦白，也是谎言吗？and your full confession before God, was that a lie too?我真的在努力发现你所认识的上帝I'm trying,frank, i'm really trying to know the God that you know. 但如果那晚你也在那里But if you'd been there that night,在月光下的荒原上on the moors in the moonlight当我们杀了第一个孩子when we did the first one你就会明白，邪恶也是一种精神体验then you'd know that evil can be a spiritual experience too你知道吗，我们只差几个星期就赶上了you know we only missed it by a few weeks什么what?死刑 The death sentence我们拘押待审的时候他们废除了死刑they abolished it while we were still on remand回头想想，你不觉得如果绞死我们对大家来说更好吗Looking back, don't you think it would have been better for everyone if they'd just hung us?当然不是，只有上帝有权拿走人的生命certainly not,only God has the right to bake human life.他不想告慰那些家属吗？would he have not wanted to give the families that comfort?没有人知道我们生命的真正意义。再说如果你被绞死，那我就没机会结识你了None of us knows the true purpose of our lives on Earth.Besides, had you been hanged, i would never have had the privilege of getting to know you.你真这么想，是吗You really believe that, don't you?那儿一定是个乐园it must be rather a nice place to be.哪里？where?在你内心Inside your head