意外流产让满心期待宝宝降生的约翰（Peter Sarsgaard 饰）和凯特（Vera Farmiga 维拉•法米加 饰）深受打击，凯特精神几近崩溃，而他们的婚姻也岌岌可危。为了挽救濒临破败婚姻，这对夫妇前往孤儿院希望收养一个孩子。在这里，他们见到了有些特立独行的小女孩伊斯特（Isabelle Fuhrman 伊莎贝尔•福尔曼 饰）。小女孩所散发出的独特气质吸引了约翰夫妇，最终伊斯特成为他们家庭中的一员。 　　然而，随着伊斯特的到来，各种离奇事件接踵而至。凯特隐约感到，这个长着天使面容的小女孩背后有着不为人知的一面…… 　　Producer Joel Silver enlisted veteran film composer John Ottman to score Jaume Serra's film Orphan. The pair has worked together before on House of Wax. Interestingly, since the film is a very psychological and nightmarish drama — one would hesitate to call it a "horror" film in the vernacular sense of the word, the score presented some interesting, and more than likely compelling puzzles for Ottman. For budgetary reasons it seems, instead of merely an orchestral score he used the heavy presence of synthesizers. These cues are threaded with them but never feel overwhelmed. The feel from the opening moments of this score is uncomfortable yet oddly seductive. There are no overly swelling cues that beat you over the head until you submit to the obvious. The music is far more suggestive and evocative than this. The cues shimmer and twist, they can turn suddenly and leave the listener a bit disoriented, but always wanting to hear more. Apparently the composer never intended the music for Orphan to be a conventional CD release, but the studio powers that be insisted and they were right. This is a stand-up piece of music all on its own.