Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
看到结尾了我竟不知道已到结局，我还在等待高潮呢
为真实的现实而流泪 但不合乎逻辑和尬的地方实在很多
非典型性抗疫电影，描写小人物们在疫情封城期间努力生活，自救和救助他人的片段。
好难看啊……难看到我现在正在看电影…然而我宁愿玩手机避免这尴尬😅
从头开始哭，一直哭到尾，有的是伤感，有的是勾起了回忆，有的是扼腕，有的是人间的温暖。新年第一天，用这样的方式开始，珍惜身边的人，反思自己漏掉的情感，珍惜眼前的生活，一粒米，一顿饭，一句问候，一个微笑。
真的不行，除了黄渤其他人都撑不起分给自己的设定巨复杂展现时间特别短以至于只能念稿子的角色
不同的家庭，不同人，相互交织，抗战疫情，面对生死，很感人。
在影院看的第一遍，一般般，感觉是在蹭热度。一年后，一个人静静的在培训所的宿舍二刷，泪流满面。补个五星，不只是给电影，给那一个过往，和那些个普通的人们。
电影本身真就一般，唯一让我动容的老戏骨那条线。实际情况多糟糕确实都知道，但是你又从糟糕之中领悟到什么呢？我只想说，一定要珍惜眼前人！
贾玲这段，没被她和朱一龙感动，反而是周冬雨和她，不管是去吃豆皮哪里还是拿到照片的时候。
动容的是疫情里的真实故事。希望可以多多鼓励年长的人去做一些之前被认定年纪大了就不应该做的事情。不管什么年龄，都可以去追求，去做自己想做的事。
为居而来。贾玲可爱。竟然觉得有她照顾居蛮好😂
连行活儿的标准都没达到，影帝影后演起戏来都显得很轻浮，本应是含着深情的台词被随意念起。没有生活体验，没有细心钻研，只能利用夸张的方式掩盖自己无法共情的真相。更像一群人完成了一个任务，至于好坏并不重要。
徐帆和高亚麟在雨中桥上那段看着总感觉尬尬的。我倒觉得这几段中，最容易让人落泪的是那两位老人之间的感情。
贾玲是不是又肥了
去年跨年时和女友在电影院观看的主旋律影片（两人第一次一起跨年加看电影），但即使旁边佳人相伴，我仍然感到如坐针毡——本片讲述了武汉疫情封城时期众多平凡家庭的故事，但整部电影充斥着各种各样过于伟光正的人物形象（也就深陷爱情幻想的贾玲稍显正常），然后又或多或少将他们尴尬地强制串联起来，再注入过度的强行煽情与自我感动，形成了这部令人无语的作品。
乍一看，好像还不错。仔细一想，漏洞百出。看了一个小时感觉都要结束了，谁知道还有1个多小时。有的场面、感情，确实挺让人感动，但是为了让人感动而让人感动，那就没什么意思了。
确实这段抗疫过往应该歌颂和纪念，但不该以这种极不严肃的方式去纪念，而且大家不是尬就是用力过猛，各种违和，几个戏骨完全没有发挥出平时的水平，还有电影里的强行煽情让人感觉真心差！
哎，剧情平淡无奇，后半个小时不错，2星给接生婆和大厨师，这对儿确实让我崩不住了
2022.3.14我们依然在寒冬里，留下的眼泪也是因为被疫情偷走了三年，而不是电影本身。
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