影片讲述了拥有乒乓球天赋的卖鞋小子马蒂·毛瑟(提莫西·查拉梅 饰)为了脱离平凡人生而努力拼搏甚至不惜一切代价的故事。为了证明自己,他去伦敦参加世界锦标赛,却遭遇惨败。为了获得再战一次的机会,他不惜放下自己的尊严。当他如愿踏上对决的赛场,内心那股誓要登顶夺冠的渴望,再也按捺不住。这个偏执到骨子里的狂人,又会在登顶的荣光之后,窥见怎样的人生真相?
Dong-hyeon and Yong-joon coincidentally meet at an acting audition. A strange gentleman appears in front of the both of them who are sick of failing at these auditions and suggests something to them. Meanwhile, Ayaka comes to Korea with her best friend Saori to meet her fiancé, Min-joon's parents. She runs into Dong-hyeon and Yong-joon who ask her to star in something and although she's not up for it, she's ushered into doing it by Shiori who loves handsome men. They move locations to a run-down facility and suddenly all exits are blocked and the four of them are trapped. Ayaka looks for an exit but instead finds cameras put up everywhere and gets the feeling that they are being watched. She suspects Yong-joon and Dong-hyeon of being behind this. Suddenly, young men overdosed with gas appear out of no where and try to rape Ayaka and Shiori. Dong-hyeon and Yong-joon fight them to save the women. All this is recorded live and sent to a crowd who is watching from a theater,enjoying it. Yong-joon and Shiori escape into another room but soon they are gassed and they suddenly want each other so bad. Then Shiori loses her mind and kills Yong-joon. Min-joon is watching this amongst the crowd at the theater. What happened between Ayaka and Min-joon...?
本片取材于小说《藏海花》中的两名少年人物张海客和张念,讲述了民国时期,张海客张念兄弟二人,因为一份帛书深入雪山深处,在极度黑暗的古珞洞穴中冒险的故事。