IN THE LAND OF BROTHERS is the intertwined story of Afghan refugees of Iran, in three decades. Starting in 1990, there is a ten-year gap between each episode. Masoumeh: An Afghan woman is searching for her missing husband who hasn't come home in two days, in the middle of a riot in Mashhad. Her daughter Hanieh is losing her hearing and wonders where her father is. Mohammad: A teenage Afghan boy is constantly being captured by the police and taken to the station for forced labor. His family works precariously in greenhouses, and he needs to find a solution on his own. Leila: A female janitor finds her husband dead before the new year's big celebration. As she and her son are illegally living in Iran, she needs to bury her husband without the house owners noticing, otherwise she might be deported. Qasem: The brother of Leila finds out his son had been killed in a proxy war in Syria. The government wants to grant citizenship to the Afghan families that've lost sons. The man struggles to reveal this to his wife Hanieh.
盖布丽(安琪拉·琼斯 Angela Jones 饰)的童年里有一段非常可怕的经历,年幼的她曾经在凶杀现场亲眼目睹死尸。这一段奇异的人生经历让盖布丽开始对尸体和死亡产生了好奇之心,这股子好奇随着她年龄的增大越发强烈起来,盖布丽甚至会特意的收藏报纸上的谋杀新闻做成剪报册,时时翻阅温习。
迈阿密接连发生凶杀案,被害者均是养尊处优的阔太太,而且无不身首异处。这起连环杀人案件很快就吸引了盖布丽的注意,为了能够更加接近命案现场,盖布丽来到了一间专门清理命案现场的保洁公司应聘成为了员工,并且在机缘巧合之下同连环杀人犯(威廉·鲍德温 William Baldwin 饰)有了一面之缘。
法医大卫(雷·利奥塔 Ray Liotta 饰)在勘验现场发现了与他妻子被害时相同的线索。大卫决定展开调查,但一直没有取得突破性进展。直到他结识了一位神经学教授玛莎(琳达·费奥伦蒂诺 Linda Fiorentino 饰),她正在研究一种特殊配方药剂,可以将老鼠的记忆力进行移植。
玛莎的研究引发了大卫的兴趣,他决定尝试将死者的记忆力注入自己体内,以了解凶案的经过,帮助找出真凶。在试验进行时,凶嫌与警方对峙时被击毙,使得大卫失去了唯一的线索。为了继续调查,他决定借用已故凶嫌的记忆,希望能够找到下一个线索。然而,在这个过程中,大卫意外地发现了一个牵扯到自身的巨大谎言。他的调查逐渐揭示了一个错综复杂的阴谋,牵涉到他自己的生活和身世。