故事发生在等级制度森严的英国，年轻的康妮（玛露 Malù 饰）终于等来了与自己分别多时的丈夫克利福特，但同时也等来了丈夫下半身永久瘫痪的噩耗。面对残酷的现实，善良的康妮只得默默接受。　　一次偶然中，康妮邂逅了庄园的看林人米尔斯（莫里斯·波利 Maurice Poli 饰），后者健壮结实的躯体让康妮的内心激动难耐。一来二往之下，康妮和米尔斯发生了关系，尽管粗鲁的情人大字不识一个，但康妮依旧在他的身上找到了久违的满足与热情。纸终究包不住火，康妮和米尔斯之间的奸情败露，令克利福特大为火光，同时，在英国已经无法生存的米尔斯决定前往加拿大开辟新的天地，究竟该留下还是离开，康妮面临着严峻的选择。

　　威廉姆身怀六甲的妻子从阳台跌落后，居然母子平安。然而，妻子又无故离去。威廉姆在追寻妻子的途中，发现六个月大的儿子神秘死亡，妻子则神志不清——她有多少秘密是威廉姆所不了解的？为了找回被埋葬的真相，威廉姆决定回到那片沉默的海湾。

　　安保专家卡特（韦斯利•斯奈普斯 Wesley Snipes 饰）在阻止一次超市抢劫案时，因为处理失误导致妻子身亡，自感愧疚的卡特状态低沉。好友试图帮助他重新振作，推荐卡特担任航空公司安保教师一职，卡特乘坐航班前往洛杉矶公干。在同一班客机上，著名恐怖分子查尔斯•雷恩（布鲁斯·佩恩 Bruce Payne 饰）也在FBI的押解下前往加州受审。穷凶极恶的雷恩早已在空乘人员内部安插了自己的手下，一班匪徒在飞机起飞不久即控制了飞机，孤立无援的卡特放掉了燃油迫使飞机降落在一处小型机场，当地警方在FBI到来前试图控制局势，卡特反被他们误认为是恐怖分子一伙，他如何凭借一己之力力挽狂澜，拯救机上百多人的生命？

　　To Elena, existence is an effort—not only does she struggle against her body affected by Parkinson’s, but her daughter has just shown up dead and only she finds the suicide hypothesis implausible. Elena is not a good victim, and doesn’t show signs of having been a selfless mother. She is vulnerable, but also overcome by rage and sorrow, and that stubbornness seems to render her invincible, against all odds. But investigating the reasons for her daughter’s death soon becomes a trip through memory, and, as we’ve known since the time of Greek tragedies, every investigation is, deep down, an investigation about oneself. Elena Knows submerges us in the physical and mental experience of its protagonist and, at the same time, invites us to ask ourselves uncomfortable questions about aging, the complexity of mother-daughter bonds and the weight of those mandates women drag the same way Elena drags her feet.

HBO Max及BBC Three已续订《搞上大明星》第二季。