The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. 


聖誕假期對艾琳．鄧露普來說一點都不快樂，正值花樣年華的艾琳，為人低調，常為生活煩惱，受困於日常壓力之下，除了要照顧整天爛醉如泥的父親，忍受鄰居針對家中髒亂的閒言閒語，白天還要在充滿恐懼氣氛的少年觀護所當秘書。艾琳內心充滿對生活的怨懟和對自我的厭惡，她整日都在幻想著不著邊際的故事，以調節乏味的日子，也夢想逃離一切到大城市生活。每到夜晚及週末，她就開始行竊、跟蹤一位名叫藍迪的獄警，還有收拾父親家中的髒亂，她父親的精神狀況越來越不穩定。直到觀護所來了一位亮麗、迷人且陽光的新輔導員麗貝卡，兩人的友誼，奇蹟般地萌芽，艾琳迷上了這位新朋友。但故事走向希區考克式的轉折，艾琳對麗貝卡的情感，最終竟讓她成了共犯，這一切超越她的想像。