在这部暗夜游魂剧情/惊悚片中,吉姆（迈克尔·库立兹 饰）是一个安静和孤独的人，这也导致他对社会和雇主充满仇恨。他喜欢他的工作，一名保安人员，因为这份工作允许他拥有足够长的时间来感受孤独。假期的时候，他喜欢访问黑夜旅游以及谋杀的网站。他近期在网络上迷上曾大规模谋杀和纵火犯的卡尔（普路特·泰勒·文斯 饰）。而他周围的人让吉姆觉得自己和卡尔的处境极为相似，卡尔经历过很多暴力和犯罪，进而影响到吉姆。他看到邻居有个女人行为不检点，就希望可以像卡尔一样杀掉她。慢慢地吉姆陷入到卡尔的人生中，他分不清究竟什么是事实真相。
A psychological-thriller in the haunting tradition of films like Taxi Driver and Monster, The Grief Tourist takes us into the chilling labyrinth of a man's dark hobby and his even darker mind. JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...
