In 1963, eighteen-year-old Patricia Weir is kidnapped and brutally raped. Committed to putting her attacker, Ernesto Miranda, in prison, Patty's life is destroyed by America's legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the Nation.
本杰明·芬恩·费尼根(马修·麦康纳 Matthew McConaughey 饰)是一名疯狂的淘金猎人,淘金的热情使他无法如常人一般找份像样的工作养家糊口,他的妻子苔丝(凯特·哈德森 Kate Hudson 饰)也向他提出离婚,并在千万富翁奈杰尔(唐纳德·萨瑟兰 Donald Sutherland 饰)的巨轮上找了份不错的工作。一次意外的沉船事故中,芬恩无意中发现一枚碟子…