电影改编自海明威的短片小说，年代设置在二战时期。电影描述了两个职业杀手突然出现在一个边远山村，因为他们的目标人物就在这个村子里，而被追杀的目标人物似乎也静静地等待着厄运的来临而不做任何反抗和斗争。在那样的社会里，生命是没有希望的，反抗是徒劳的。虽然是部短片电影，但是导演Martin Taidy细致地表现了杀手杀人前的冷静和不动声色…

Each of the six episodes of this series consisted of three segments. In each episode the first segment was called "The Life", which covered Katherine Mansfield's life. The other two segments were adaptations of her short stories.