根据同名舞台剧改编。
父母、老师以及校董会的虚与委蛇，让豪伊、迪瓦塔和所罗门深深受挫。于是三个边缘人把不忿当水泥，重建了被人遗忘的演讲辩论社，共同踏上寻求真理，为自己发声的旅程。
观看此片前，最好先预习关键词“萨勒姆的女巫”，了解一下历史事件以及米勒的该部剧作。

Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside the ramshackle pre-war duplex, eerie things start to go bump in the night. Soon, family tensions reach a boiling point… and the hilarity, heart and horrors of the Blake clan are exposed.