Traumatised by the death of an innocent. Killer for hire Bradley drops out of society, seeking meaning roaming the dangerous streets of a tough inner city ghetto. When he encounters a savage pimp and a desperate woman under his control Bradley finds the means to give battle to the inner demons that have eluded him. He embarks on a quest to save a young girl from the clutches of the brutal gangsters that trade human beings as currency. Drawn deeper into a sickening world in which age is no bar to exploitation and pursued by police, gangland villains and a mysterious agency known only as The Executive. Bradley discovers an ever deepening web of corruption and vice, and a dangerous game in which nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted.

效力于某知名搜索引擎公司的程序员加利·史密斯（多姆纳尔·格利森 Domhnall Gleeson 饰）幸运地抽中老板纳森（奥斯卡•伊萨克 Oscar Isaac 饰）所开出的大奖，他将受邀前往位于深山的别墅中和老板共度假期。在与世隔绝的别墅中，纳森亲切地接待了这位员工。 事实上他邀请加利到来还有另一个目的，那就是协助他完成其所开发的智能机器人的测试。天才一般的纳森研制了具有独立思考能力的智能机器人伊娃（艾丽西亚·维坎德 Alicia Vikander 饰），为了确认她是否具有独立思考的能力，他希望加利能为伊娃进行著名的“图灵测试”。似乎从第一眼开始，加利便为这台有着宛如人类般姣好容颜的机器人所吸引。 在随后的交流中，他所面对的似乎不是冷冰冰的机器，而更像是一个被无辜囚禁起来的可怜少女……

前一部的主人公Jay、Neil、Simon与Will再次相聚，前往澳大利亚度假。

故事讲述在一个威权体制（an authoritarian regime）逐渐瓦解的府邸（the palace）内，一年时间里发生的事情。