人性污点

希尔克（安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰）是一名大学教授，深受同事和学生们的信赖和喜爱。希尔克有一个美丽贤惠的妻子和三个伶俐可爱的孩子，他的生活堪称人生赢家的典范。然而，在希尔克的内心里隐藏着一个惊人的秘密，虽然他对外谎称自己是犹太人，但实际上，他却是一名非裔，只不过肤色极淡几乎无法察觉。这个秘密让希尔克内心里充满了自卑。 　　某日，希尔克在课堂上的一个无心的用词让他的生活产生了翻天覆地的变化。他丢掉了工作、朋友，妻子和孩子也离开了他。在绝望之中，希尔克结识了名为福尼亚（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰），悲惨的童年经历让福尼亚心中充满了伤痛和自卑，但正是这样的相似令希尔克和福尼亚坠入了爱河，两人成为了彼此唯一的依靠。The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.