介绍：故事发生在19世纪的英国，杨科（文森特·佩雷斯 Vincent Perez 饰）在航海旅行中遭遇了海难，幸运又不幸的成为了整艘船上唯一的一个幸存者海浪将杨科冲到了一座美丽的海滨小镇上，在那里，没有人愿意帮助穿得破破烂烂浑身上下又脏兮兮的杨科，除了一个名叫艾米（蕾切尔·薇兹 Rachel Weisz 饰）的女佣。　　在艾米的精心照料之下，杨科渐渐恢复了健康。艾米是大户人家的私生女，因为这个尴尬的身份，她只能从事低贱的女佣的工作，并且在这个小镇上处处都遭受白眼和排挤，这境遇和杨科这个外来者几乎一模一样。两个同样不受待见的人只能在彼此的身上寻找温暖，很快，他们就坠入了情网。

介绍：James Bentley is tried for the murder of Abigail McGinty, the charwoman of Broadhinny who also took in Bentley as her lodger. The evidence is overwhelming, and soon after he is sentenced to hang. Superintendent Spence is not convinced of the man's guilt, and so he visits Poirot, asking him to look into the case. Poirot then heads off to the village, where he becomes the paying guest of Maureen and Major Johnnie Summerhayes. Ariadne Oliver, Poirot's novelist friend, has also come to Broadhinny to collaborate on a stage adaptation of one of her novels with dramatist Robin Upward. With the clue of a bottle of ink purchased by the dead woman shortly before her death, Poirot searches Mrs. McGinty's belongings and finds an edition of The Sunday Comet newspaper, where an article concerning two women connected with famous murders has been cut out. With the story are two photographs of the women. Poirot discovers that Mrs. McGinty had seen one of the photographs before, and knew to whom it belonged to. But which woman was this case connected with Are any of the people living in Broadhinny related to these women, as one of their children Or perhaps one of them is one of the actual women The puzzle pieces begin to fit in, especially after Poirot is shoved into the path of an oncoming train by an unknown entity. But will the murderer strike again