穷山恶水

Holly（茜茜·斯派塞克 Sissy Spacek 饰）的母亲去世后，父亲带着她搬家到南达科塔的一个小镇。在那里，15岁的Holly认识了比她大10岁的混混Kit（马丁·辛 Martin Sheen饰）。两人很快成了恋人。Kit成天无所事事，打着零工，Holly的父亲十分反对他俩的交往。一天，Kit闯入Holly的家，打包好Holly的行李，想带上Holly远走高飞，遭到Holly父亲的制止。Kit开枪打死了Holly父亲。随后，Kit放了一把火烧了Holly家的房子，伪装成三个人都葬身火海的假象。Kit开着车载着Holly去到一个原始森林，两人过着原始人般的生活。但很快，有人发现了他们的踪迹。他杀死这些人之后，又带着Holly到处逃亡.....It's the late 1950s. Mid-twenty-something Kit is a restless and unfocused young man with a James Dean vibe and swagger which he has heard mentioned about him more than once. Fifteen year old Holly has a somewhat cold relationship with her sign painter father, if only because she is the primary reminder of his wife, who died of pneumonia when Holly was a child. The two meet when Holly and her father move from Texas to the small town where Kit lives, Fort Dupree, South Dakota. They slowly fall in love, something about which she cannot tell her father because of their age difference and Kit coming from the wrong side of the tracks. When he tries to take Holly away with him, Kit, on an impulse, shoots her father dead. After letting the initial emotions of the situation settle down, Holly decides voluntarily to go with Kit, they trying to make it look like they committed suicide in a house fire. But they soon learn that their plan did not work, there being a bounty on their heads. As such, Kit continues his murderous ways in order to protect the life he wants to eke out with Holly. She, on the other hand, wants to support Kit, especially as he begins to feel more and more trapped, but she may only be able to endure what looks increasingly to be a battle they cannot win as a couple. Through it all, they openly and privately muse about their philosophies on their life considering their current circumstance.