Guy Maddin reluctantly returns to his childhood home, an abandoned Canadian island, where his parents ran an orphanage. As Guy fulfills his dying mother's request to paint the lighthouse which served as the orphanage, memories of strange events there overpower him. An undercover investigation by child author/detective Wendy & a revolt by the repressed children, blew open a cover-up by Guy's parents. Wendy disguised herself as her brother Chance and discovered that Maddin's inventor father performed outré scientific experiments on the orphans. 盖伊·马丁：温柔与恶意的碎语者。追忆狂。半梦半醒的人生。大胆的实验。午夜剧之追忆少年狂。我只会说直观印象。。。。(￣▽￣")。 Guy (Guy Maddin 飾)被母親 (Gretchen Krich 飾)召回孩時長大的荒島，重新粉飾以前居住的燈塔。Guy 在島上四處遊蕩，一幕幕童年時的夢魘再次湧上心頭。Guy 的母親和父親 (Todd Moore 飾) 在燈塔裡曾經有一間孤兒所，內裡的小童個個神情古怪，彷彿有天大的秘密。母親平常最喜歡用探射燈去窺探子女的行為和思想；父親整天在工作室裡頭，進行不為人知的神秘實驗。一天，少年偵探 Chance 和姐姐 Wendy (Katherine E. Scharhon 分飾)來到島上調查；而Guy 和 姐姐 (Maya Lawson 飾) 分別愛上 Chance 和 Wendy。究竟島上有甚麼驚人的秘密呢？
