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本片片名来自英国民间的《鹅妈妈童谣集》，根据约翰•勒卡雷的同名小说改编。 冷战时，全球两大特工组织——俄罗斯“中心”与英国“圆场”明争暗斗。总管发现情报局内部潜伏着一名克格勃，怀疑对象就是包括总管助理乔治在内的几名情报局核心成员：锅匠，裁缝，士兵，穷人，乞丐。老总为查清事情策划了一次跨国间谍活动，结果惨遭失败，不久就在内部权力倾轧中失利引退。同时，也连累一批情报官员被清洗出局，其中也包括被提前退休的乔治。乔治本来有重大嫌疑，英国内阁办公室谍报总监排除了嫌疑，委托他调查内奸。于是乔治开始分别走访故人。一时间，圆场疑云密布，人人自危，究竟谁才是“地鼠”……。American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。
