故事发生在1882年的美国西部平原，在那片广阔的土地上，生活着名为“拓荒者”的人们，他们自由的选择土地，辛勤劳作，放牧牛羊，安居乐业，查理（凯文·科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰）、苏（安妮特·贝宁 Annette Bening 饰）、莫斯（亚布拉哈姆·本鲁比 Abraham Benrubi 饰）和斯皮尔曼（罗伯特·杜瓦尔 Robert Duvall 饰）正是其中的成员。 可是，随着时间的推移，居民的增多，广袤的平原不再是能够自由驰骋的疆土，只是单纯善良的四人还没有注意到局势的变化。一次意外中，西部小镇的恶霸巴克斯特（金·寇兹 Kim Coates 饰）联手警长恶整了前来购买物资的莫斯并禁止“拓荒者”们再接近小镇，直到这时，查理一行人才意识到，是时候拿起武器为他们的尊严和自由而战了。
A committed couple finds their life slipping away, not because they’ve done anything in particular, but because their history is unwriting itself. Sort of.
Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, Monier takes up the case, convinced of his innocence. As his investigations kept him back to the night of
A cataclysmic event serves as the backdrop for a passionate affair between two individuals torn between desire and the constraints of their circumstances.
