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".
嫁祸于人，屈打成招，栽赃陷害，草菅人命，贪赃枉法，官官相护，蛇鼠一窝。世上本无新鲜事，无非是换个地方换一群人来上演。苦的依然苦，恶的依然恶。只希望男主这种人间的天使，救世主多一些，真正能改变这个世界。
正义不会迟到，为那些底层的人奋战，为有良心的人们喝彩！
近三个小时的片子，却不觉冗长，不得不说印度某些电影是真不错👍正是因为有这样一些人，不忘初心，拥抱理想，砥砺奋进，不计回报，社会才得以进步，阳光的味道才洒满人间….2021最佳！5星荐
你要说它有多优秀，其实质量一般，更多的是题材优势。整部片子依靠成熟的商业化制作模式，近乎直白地将矛头对准了印度种姓制度，倒是把隔壁韩国电影那套学了个彻底，但不得不说，这几年，印度电影的整体质量提升不少，各种类型片频出。
列宁铜像桌上摆，马克思画像墙上挂，社会主义心中留，共产斗士救贱民！！！！
敢於掌握你手中的權力，除此之外別無選擇，收回權力，要求權力，因為這是唯一昂首行走的辦法。絕不妥協，這是一場爭取平等權利的戰鬥，讓普通人的目光一一點亮，宣告通往新起點的道路。誰在命令我？你是誰？我們不是溫馴的羊，別以為你能讓我們屈服，我們沒有多少武器，愛是這場兵變的動力。公正屬於所有人，把這條信息帶給人民。#真是一首好歌 /"這不是對任何人的仇恨，這是對社會的愛和關懷"，共勉之。
一部电影未必能对根深蒂固的社会顽疾产生根本的影响，但是能看到每个社会都有推动社会进步之士的坚守。开放题材限制，印度也逐渐涌现出了不少佳作。
印度电影和韩国电影敢于刺破黑暗的这份勇，真的令人肃然起敬！
一开始以为杰伊比姆是人名的可以跟我一起举个手吗哇哈哈哈~这司法体系真是让人窒息啊，上去二话不说直接抽你丫的，抽死了还有整个国家体系为这行为掩盖和辩护，硬没盖住还有国家赔偿负责善后，印度真是各方面都开挂~律师也不容易，一个人对抗整个司法体系，学法律还得搞刑侦，警察都被得罪完了，就很奇怪他们居然还这么君子从不请这律师去喝茶，让我还一度担心这律师会不会被灭口，结果他们居然还留了侄子和弟弟这两个活口真是既坏又蠢~印度是任何题材都能上歌舞的，所以这片也唱了半打歌舞，不惊喜不意外~说是印度版辩护人有点过了，辩护人和出租车司机、华丽的假期、1987应该是一水的片子，那是只属于全斗焕的特殊时代，荣耀归于全斗焕哈哈哈~总体来说还是不错的，就是印度片另一个特点就是片长，很少发现有120分钟之内的印度片，基本150分钟起拍？
小人物，大历史。为推动社会进步而做出的一点点努力都应该被记录下来。
“杰伊比姆”是“比姆万岁”的意思，这是印度人民为纪念一位伟大种族平权者而流传的一句口号，此人是比姆拉奥，他出身卑贱，他一生都在为提升“贱民”的社会地位而做斗争，推动并主持印度独立后第一部宪法的制定，构建了印度宪法的基本原则，被誉为“宪法之父”。电影以暴露95年印度一个被冤枉在监狱致死的罪犯为背景，律师最后申冤看出来了印度的制度
感觉是现实意义比较重大，作为一部电影和一个故事来看，影片的叙事节奏过于拖沓，充满了无关紧要的细枝末节，和这样高的评分应该有的影片质量比较不符合。
真实改编是本片最值得夸耀的地方 民主法制的建立和斗士愤慨激昂的斗志是现代人权主义建立健全文明社会的核心价值 片子的剧情和剪辑很标准不花哨 虽然有些镜头有些年代感 但叙事节奏一直在线 人物塑造特点鲜明且工整 而最值得称赞的是一个民族值得承认错误的气度和勇气而不是欲盖弥彰
印度版《辩护人》。首先赞扬一下印度电影人一直以来一丝不苟的工匠精神，虽然这也可能与国情有关，但这满满当当将近三个小时的无拖沓剧情，没有一丝的多余剪辑，真是让人肃然起敬。
套路不？套路！好看不？好看！还是根据真人真事改编的，服不服？
有生之年，印度要是能彻底概念种姓制度，我倒立吃X
印度电影老生常谈了，也不是第一次直面国情制度等等，未来还是期待更多年轻化视听语言的印度电影吧。
非常好看且有社会意义。有些桥段过于喜剧化，比如坏蛋警察一次次犯蠢送分，让片子少了一些真实感，也会让人悲观：是不是只有坏蛋没长脑子时，正义才能得到伸张？
一部正能量满满的宣扬正义的南印电影，令人震惊的竟然是真实事件改编。带有梦幻色彩的结局给这个不幸的事件一个圆满的答案。感叹印度种姓制度的痼疾之毒的同时，对于印度法院在整个事件中表现得公正不阿，让人不禁唏嘘称赞，虽显得有些魔幻，但希望真实的印度法院系统能真的如此中立公正。
能拍、敢拍这样的题材值得表扬，但是从艺术的角度看，拍的太过脸谱化，以至于不吸引人。
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