有一天,玛姬(金·贝辛格 Kim Basinger 饰)的妹妹珍娜(安吉拉·贝蒂斯 Angela Bettis 饰)带着她的女儿科迪(霍利斯顿·科尔曼 Holliston Coleman 饰)找到了玛姬,希望她能照顾她。然而,自那之后,珍娜再也没有任何消息。 六年后,珍娜再次出现,这次她带来了新婚丈夫艾瑞克(卢夫斯·塞维尔 Rufus Sewell 饰),他是一位知名电视台主持人,同时也是一个新宗教团体的传道者。他们要求玛姬归还科迪。正当玛姬感到无助时,FBI干员约翰(吉米·斯密茨 Jimmy Smits 饰)发现了艾瑞克与最近发生的失踪和谋杀案有关。于是他决定帮助玛姬查找科迪的下落。原来,艾瑞克之所以绑架科迪,是因为他相信科迪是耶稣使徒的转世,并且从小就表现出一些超自然能力。然而,无神论者的玛姬对此并不相信。Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis, an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special." She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches.