Two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island's fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.

When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang his agent assures him its a good opportunity.As the Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting he's predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA. The information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind.

Starring Pierce Brosan, Ewan McGregor, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson

This is a story on an ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist who wants a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with.