A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.
多米尼卡(詹妮弗·劳伦斯 Jennifer Lawrence 饰)本是一名芭蕾舞演员,在一场意外中负伤,导致她无法再继续经营自己热爱的舞蹈事业。之后,多米尼卡在被迫的情况下被训练成为了一名间谍,代号“红雀”。她被上级指派潜伏在一位名叫内森尼尔(乔尔·埃哲顿 Joel Edgerton 饰)的美国中情局特工身边,套取他手中掌握的间谍名单。