希望能成为作家的西蒙作着为报纸编纵横字谜游戏的工作,在西班牙的重要宗教节日神圣星期来临时,他发现自己被卷入了一起恐怖活动中。有人把杀人、爆炸当作了一个游戏来玩,而西蒙则被选中扮演英雄的角色,他该怎样结束这个游戏呢?Amid the spectacular festivities of Holy Week in Seville, an aspiring novelist stuggles with his work and pays his bills by composing crossword puzzles. A cryptic recording left on his answering machine demands that he include a certain word in a future puzzle, and he becomes drawn into a spiraling tangle of mystery, danger and confusion. Soon he's forced into participating in a real-life version of a computer game on the narrow streets of Seville, the stakes being extremely high for the entire city.