查尔斯（安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰）是一个腰缠万贯的百万富翁，对于他来说，金钱、权利和女人不过是生活的基本配置而已。但是，在为查尔斯打工的摄影师罗伯特（亚历克·鲍德温 Alec Baldwin 饰）眼里，老板所拥有的一切，尤其是他年轻的妻子米琪（艾拉·麦克弗森 Elle Macpherson 饰）都让他感到十分眼红，但是，罗伯特不知道的是，敏感又细心的查尔斯早就开始怀疑起了他和米琪之间的清白。 在一次工作中，众人乘坐的飞机发生了事故，一行人流落到了阿拉斯加的荒原之上。匮乏的资源，恶劣的天气，凶恶的野生动物，一切的一切都威胁着大家的性命，但最最可怕的，其实是每个人深藏在心底的黑暗面。

Classic British comedy adapted from a James Thurber story about a tweed manufacturer's elderly accountant who devises a plan to save the company from an American takeover bid. The arrival of an efficiency expert from the States causes enough of a stir but, when it turns out to be a woman, the old-fashioned number cruncher declares war. Man-eating businesswoman, Angela Barrows is sent by her US company to Edinburgh to investigate export opportunities. She meets businessman Robert MacPherson en route and he persuades her to help bring his company into the 20th century. The staff, lead by Mr. Martin, have other ideas and a battle between the old and new business methods breaks out.