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".
想起一堆同类题材的电影，如金宝拉的《蜂鸟》，用一种恒定的坐标譬如马拉多纳的上帝之手进球、譬如圣水桥的坍塌来建立起时间的支点，围绕支点建构年少情感的来龙去脉……索伦蒂诺用当代电影摄影布光技法去捕捉年代故事，既是一次时空对撞，也是一种对时间滤片的破坏，寻乡电影（少年是时间的乡愁）不可避免地陷入到自说自话的地步，露出疲软的自恋、暗自伤神的呓语面目。
真诚吗？倒像是层层包裹的漠然 不过你记得就好 @Hannover
一部有一点逝去的伤感、一些鲜亮的人物以及很多荷尔蒙的童年回忆，一部给那不勒斯、给八十年代、给表演艺术的热情赞歌。从笑到哭，两种情绪都把握得还挺好，温和不过火。更喜欢的还是里面的幽默感。当一直形象粗鄙、在家族中被取笑的老妇人在葬礼上突然念出了几句但丁的时候，我是很服气的。大荧幕上看这种超美的画质，于是进一步被种草了那不勒斯（以及Stromboli），虽然早就在要去的地方列表里了但还是可以提前一下……
第一部索伦蒂诺是首作同名的人，烙下心病了长时间不再触碰他，第二部就是上帝之手，阿玛柯德是我最喜欢的费里尼电影（其实除了它和船续前行都没太大的感觉），算是很自我和迷影的作品了。
这个无限接近费里尼了啊，但我喜欢的索伦蒂诺好像是他不费里尼的那部分……
从楼上女爵那里得到往前看的启示后 整个结尾部分走向无所事事的抒情。但我喜欢导演的家人们，喜歡鏡頭與人物的距離，情緒大多靠行動和肢體語言來表達，而不是看表情，更強調人在環境中的狀態。只是他如果能换种方式回顾往事或许不至于这么用力直接。但我又怎能左右别人私影像的回忆方式呢？
后生可畏,看好小男主。
对味，没有走向泛滥成灾的镜头炫技，不再是华丽成颓靡的诗篇。是以追忆逝去青春年少写的一首挽歌，是私人的同时也是明亮的。夏天其实没有那么惨，毕竟法比托还有情欲与足球队。
拍给自己的电影。后半部分尤其好，看似炫技的运动镜头此时充满了情感。
前半部好难看进去，从“上帝之手”发生之后整部电影就突然变了一个气质。那段导演和法托比黄昏下的争论实在是太妙了。狂欢下的孤独，关于痛苦，我只服费里尼和索伦蒂诺。“你到底有没有故事”后劲十足。
关于保罗索伦蒂诺，就是你永远都猜不到他的下一步，是惊喜还是惊奇，他似乎有着源源不断的创意，把深刻和美学融合在一起。
看意大利片常常成为审美再教育，导演一个镜头也没浪费。新事物是生命之美，与之相比，回忆无比快乐也无比痛苦。原来我们都想逃脱自己的失败，像一个大人一样，不要垮掉。
解答了我许多疑问:索伦蒂诺的审美，思辨，幽默，哀伤从何而来？他的青年，家人，故乡又是何种模样？比《罗马》多了家庭的情感，比《痛苦与荣耀》多了更青涩的挣扎。是近年最喜欢的带有自传性质的作品了。
上帝之手并非万能之手， 通过难以言喻的悲伤，一位少年最终成为一名男人
这次少年托比奥的故事
这也是他交给影片中疑问的答案
悲剧里的荒诞更显悲凉，大概导演想说的是，他“在这片荒谬和混沌中，不知觉就这么长大了，也即将逝去了”。
你年轻，你疯，你是自由的，你要说出来，仿佛是神谕，无处不在的迭戈，无处不在的费里尼。他用眼睛观察一切。好电影让人遗忘现实。
应该是生活过意大利的人才会欣赏这部电影，否则太琐碎。
没有进取心的流水账。索伦蒂诺糖水回忆录电影。 /with小狗
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