约克郡公爵（科林.费斯 Colin Firth 饰）因患口吃，无法在公众面前发表演讲，这令他接连在大型仪式上丢丑。贤惠妻子伊丽莎白（海伦娜.伯翰.卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰）为了帮助丈夫，到处寻访名医，但是传统的方法总不奏效。一次偶然的机会，她慕名来到了语言治疗师莱纳尔罗格（杰弗里.拉什 Geoffrey Rush 饰）的宅邸，传说他的方式与众不同。虽然公爵对罗格稀奇古怪的招法并不感兴趣，首次诊疗也不欢而散。但是，公爵发现在聆听音乐时自己朗读莎翁竟然十分流利。这让他开始信任罗格
A man finds out from a would be killer that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. But is this mysterious man telling the truth? When both the killer and the wife turn up dead, everyone is a suspect, and the investigation takes an unexpected turn
