表面看来，梅根（海莉·斯坦菲尔德 Hailee Steinfeld 饰）是一位天真美丽的十六岁少女，可实际上，她的真实身份却是享誉全国的职业杀手。在本应该尽情挥洒青春光彩的年纪，梅根却同鲜血和枪支为伴，长久以来打打杀杀躲躲藏藏的漂泊生活，令梅根心生退意。 　　在大费周折伪造了自己的死亡现场后，拥有全新的名字和身份的梅根来到了梦寐以求的高中，在这里，她只是一位平凡的高中三年级女生，即将享受只属于她的高中生活。刚开始，一切看起来都是那么的美好，可渐渐地，为了保守秘密，梅根不得不制造了一个又一个谎言，与此同时，梅根那挥之不去的过往亦如影随形。Megan Walsh has been training to be an international assassin for Hardman. However, while she is on a mission, she notices how other teenagers her age seem to be having fun and enjoying their lives. Desiring a normal life, she bails out of a mission and enrolls in a student exchange program, while in the process of being adopted by a foster family. She soon becomes a part of the high school and is subjected to the pressures and life of being in its environment.