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".
看到如此多的资源集中在这样一部煽情、矫情、滥情的电影上，让人生理性反感。感觉不存在真情实感，一切都是硬演出来的。因为“硬”，所以吃力；因为“演”，所以不自然。感觉导演只负责“正确”，让你哭就垫乐拉满、让你笑就强挠你痒。疫情当中不是没有动人的故事，影片却只会生搬硬套，让人失望透顶。
夫妻。老人。很真实。
以小爱汇聚成大爱，致敬每一个在疫情期间依旧坚守岗位的普通人。
电影差评还是挺多的，可以理解。我觉得还不错，导演所描绘的是疫情之下一个个普通的英雄，一首首温情的歌。爱情串起疫情故事，挺美好的。其实我也不想再直面当时的那些悲壮与残忍，温情叙事挺好的。故事线稍微有点乱，三星。
这么些美好的人，是寒冬的一团火，温暖人心，让人忽略了疫情的残忍，剧情稍显单调; 朱一龙真合适叶老师的角色形象，儒雅温柔
很普通的一部主旋律温情电影，各种各样的小故事组成，然后用一根线串起来，就这样……
总之就是披着疫情的伪爱情片，好多地方我都忍不住喊，口罩带好行吗？年前没啥能看的电影了，这个算是可以一看吧。结尾的合唱很好听，有点加分。
真的一般，整个故事设计没有任何可以夸赞的地方，但这部片子票房还不错，因为拍的是刚刚发生的历史。
疫情讲的不明不白，情感演的不伦不类。失败的电影。
看到结尾了我竟不知道已到结局，我还在等待高潮呢
一场疫情，反反复复拍，没有任何反思，没有深度，浮于表面的煽情励志这些今年我已经看厌倦了。真是够了
片尾曲好好听『说好了不散』。
影片中让我忍不住落眼泪的几乎没有主演的参与，而且一幕幕在社交媒体上看过的情景再现：疫情初期决定封城武汉人真实画面、医务工作者义无反顾奔赴前线、大批物资从各省市遥远驶来…… 反而刻画的几组形象，细节没处理好，情感不够朴实细腻，越看越觉得为了煽情而煽情，最后结束时候我扫了扫全影院的人，属实冲动拥抱的不太多啊……
话说我确实没觉得温暖和治愈，甚至觉得片子时间太长，尤其那个二胎真的莫名其妙
真后悔看这个，人物行为逻辑完全失真，串联僵硬，这也能算电影吗？
全片透着一股温柔，没有正面的生离死别，最后结尾的樱花盛开和武汉长江大桥，能带给观影者以希望。
算是主旋律吧……演员阵容强大啊！有泪点，有笑点，虽然剧情都能猜到下一步，但是周冬雨扮演的那个小护士去世时还是落泪了。希望疫情早日结束🔚大家加油💪等到疫情彻底消灭时，我要好好的拥抱这个世界。
个人觉得拆开做独立的单元格，或者微电影会更好，作为一个两小时的电影，方方面面的，有些稀碎
咱就是说...贾玲和朱一龙好不容易谈个恋爱还be了，这男主死得毫无必要啊...喜欢爷爷奶奶这对，哭死我了呜呜呜。甜甜也参演了，好惊喜ww唱的歌也很好听！（强烈吐槽雨中拥抱这个戏，我不理解，在电影院看得我满脸问号脚趾抓地，就这？这就好了？这就？嗯？？？？
为贾玲跟黄渤还有两个老戏骨点赞！方言版让我听的更舒服，真正的历经的武汉人不敢看，我这样回不去的武汉人哭的稀里哗啦，一点没煽情，就是不停地想哭。老医生上人工肺的时候真的忍不住。太多这样的医生了。朱一龙跟贾玲很搭很搭。就是受不了徐帆，身上完全没有武汉人气息了。
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