影片根据台湾著名女作家李昂的同名小说改编。《暗夜》是一部描写权力、金钱、欲望与道德冲突的小说，导演但汉章将小说搬上了银幕，表现了股票记者、商人、商人之妻三个人间的爱欲纠缠。

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict manifests in its most complicated form over one night, and the encounter between two Israeli soldiers and the two Palestinian residents of the house to which the soldiers escape after their vehicle is attacked.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict manifests in its most complicated form over one night, and the encounter between two Israeli soldiers and the two Palestinian residents of the house to which the soldiers escape after their vehicle is attacked.

《暗夜》一个恐怖的故事，发生在夜里，血腥、残暴、癫狂只要是能刺激你眼球的东西一样不少。而且全部都是用动画表现出来。 　　Malena 和 Pablo 兄妹俩旅行到阿根廷，发现了一本日记记载了20年前发生的罪案。这一晚一个家庭随着日记的历史重演被谋杀了，这个 Malena 和 Pablo 去查处究竟什么是真实的，什么不是真实的？……

Mixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s. With archive footage of 'kino newsreels', a script that is loosely based on the utopian fantasies of Fritz Lang and about the forbidden passionate love affair between a photographer and his model. The Dark Night takes Oleg Kovalov a little closer to his target: to write a complete history of the twentieth century in the language of film. Not a documentary or chronological history, but a lyrical, subjective and poetic history. In Sergei Eisenstein - An Autobiography, we witnessed the stormy 1920s and the blossoming culture of that era, in Scorpion's Garden we saw the paranoia of the Cold War and the thaw that followed. The Dark Night, just like Concert for a Rat before, is on the subject of the dictatorial 1930s. Kovalov has little faith in the documentary as a means to find truth. He does not think that the truth can be found within existing genres. So his films transgress those genres. Documentary and fiction are just as difficult to distinguish in his work as fictional characters from concrete people in old newsreels and other archive footage. That also goes for The Dark Night. The film combines archive footage from the Third Reich with a script that is loosely based on the fantasies of Fritz Lang: a lyrical thriller with horror elements. As the stylised black & white images have all been shot in reconstructed studio sets, the film has the mood of the 1930s cinema.

一九九五年，归国华侨董哲因欠债去台湾，出售跟亡妻创立的“回家”饭馆，留下大女儿董意和二女儿董情在北京。董意成立“寻味”菜馆，经过打拼，成为北京饮食界女强人。二十年后，父亲带着同父异母的三妹董芯回京居住，重掌“寻味”集团。一直感情空白的董意失意于工作，却遇上心仪的南韩食评家金文浩。后金文浩投归死敌李察的“回家”集团。董情发现母亲因她而死的真相后，一蹶不振、选择自残。董意面对事业、亲情和爱情的打击下，决心放弃事业，跟金文浩在一起。最后，董芯打败奸诈的李察。董情也奇迹苏醒。董氏三姐妹修补了家庭关系。

一九九五年，归国华侨董哲因欠债去台湾，出售跟亡妻创立的“回家”饭馆，留下大女儿董意和二女儿董情在北京。董意成立“寻味”菜馆，经过打拼，成为北京饮食界女强人。二十年后，父亲带着同父异母的三妹董芯回京居住，重掌“寻味”集团。一直感情空白的董意失意于工作，却遇上心仪的南韩食评家金文浩。后金文浩投归死敌李察的“回家”集团。董情发现母亲因她而死的真相后，一蹶不振、选择自残。董意面对事业、亲情和爱情的打击下，决心放弃事业，跟金文浩在一起。最后，董芯打败奸诈的李察。董情也奇迹苏醒。董氏三姐妹修补了家庭关系。

剧情讲述大乾朝最年轻的不良帅江湖因遭奸臣构陷导致家破人亡，未能护送关键证人韩阳导致忠将胡将军蒙冤，自责隐退江湖流浪十年，后因报恩卷入朝廷悬案，与旧识夜雨共同对抗麟鬼阁恶势力，救下孤女蓉儿并揭开阴谋。全剧以双男主设定呈现江湖侠义与朝堂纷争交织的冒险故事，剧中包含竹林打戏等武侠场景，展现江湖夜雨踏险途执手救赎的历程。

曾是不良人首领的江湖，因未能护送关键证人韩阳而使忠将胡将军蒙冤，不良人兄弟也因此受害。多年后，卢家赏识他的武艺，他尽心报恩，后独自漂泊，渴望过平凡生活。然而，遇到麟鬼阁的恶徒让他再度卷入江湖风波。江湖救下孤女蓉儿，与旧识夜雨携手相伴，两人心怀正义、共担艰险。

这是一部关于复仇与家族纷争的故事，主要讲述了女主角吴青青为报父母之仇，利用婚姻和计谋逐步摧毁仇人家庭的故事。