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".
自然流畅的轻喜剧，人类不是只有因为血缘才能建立亲密关系，另外LGBT的故事再也不是苦大仇深爱而不能之类的了，和异性恋一样，都是人，而人性都是复杂的
有点无语住了。有1点真的让人难以接受。出轨就是垃圾，还想得到别人重视。受害者有罪论一堆不见出轨人有任何代价，搞得好像被出轨的没付出过一样。不合适了不爱了可以谈，可以分离，出轨算什么东西！？？什么奇葩强行HE
没想到这个ending，居然那么的日常又不drama，也许lgbt的确就像每一个不完美的小家。
拍的不压抑，轻松幽默又真情实感，羡慕意大利开放到这种程度，如果我们可以，出生率也许还能再提一提
都不及感情逝去时的痛！
意大利的电影拍得如此成熟了，真棒啊！
片名取得好啊，爱就是这样，又复杂又真挚
每个家庭都会有伤痕，而伤痕会让一个人与众不同。爱无关乎血缘，是生活中的千丝万缕汇聚而成。啼笑皆非，抓马不断，又不失温情。
青少年本色出演怎会不好看？当异性恋家庭伦理电影天花乱坠产能过剩审美疲劳之时，甚至故事框架都无需改变，依旧狗血淋头与程式化剧情，只要把异性恋家庭换成同性恋家庭，整个电影都会清新起来，吵架也变得可爱，离婚也可以成为最完美的结局。
这才是正常的普通家庭价值观吧 与血缘与基因无关 一手一脚领着你接纳自己和拥抱世界这样最基本的父母原则 大部分繁殖人一辈子都没有学会 虽然家庭最终分开了 但也是好的再度启程 拍摄形式有够酷
糖衣炮弹的小品下包裹着社会性少数议题，再拨开才发现这其实也是千万个家庭的投影，无关形式。意式抓马生动跳脱。
还是挺有诚意 轻松搞笑又探讨有意义的剧情 当爱消失了我们应该怎么面对呢
共同的经历和情分造就了人之间的联系。但我还是很不喜欢 出轨是两个人造成 的说法。
灯塔之后A24那股神秘的灵性似乎就被榨尽，风格独特的黑白画面再现也无法弥补经典改编的平庸之罪，科恩夫妇联手丹泽尔也不过是维持中规中矩的古典感，而值得赞美的仅剩女巫登场时压迫感极强的妖异表演，以及作为招牌摄影的迷雾填补消散与白日-大地的转场切换。最后不得不感叹黑泽明那座蜘蛛巢城已经成为后来所有麦克白改编时被迫直面的不可逾越之山脉。
什么叫质感，简直太棒了！故事已经被演绎太多次，没有更多的惊喜。看看画面和精湛的表演吧。
怎会如此抓马如此狗血如此好笑。
7.9分，看了又好像没看，很平淡，可以打发时间。
非常欣喜能看到如今的LGBT电影能够走出以前的那种题材范围，而探索更加丰富和普世的命题，让同性题材褪去猎奇的外衣，收获更多的共鸣，美中不足的是如果家庭关系、社会环境能够讨论得更加深刻一点就好了，而不是像片中片那样，点到即止，少了些回味。
一部认真讲故事，关注少数婚姻，家庭，成长的电影。演员的表演自然，整部充满着温情的意大利电影。小男主和配乐都是我的心头好，2022第一部五星。
三星半 故事主线与瑞典电影《养子十五岁》有异曲同工之处，但比较起来，《养子》的表演更具感染力。另，网飞涉及青春、爱情的片子越来越流水化模式了。无论是叙事方式，摄影，配乐都大同小异，容易审美疲劳呀。
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