Follows the story of Ruth Ellis: her lifestyle as a young nightclub manageress, her violent relationship with the man she then killed in cold blood, her arrest, trial, and subsequent legal battle to get her release before she was hanged....
理发师艾迪（Billy Bob Thornton 饰）的生活平淡无奇，在百货店担任簿记的妻子多丽丝（Frances McDormand 饰）和他貌合神离，艾迪凭丈夫的直觉断定妻子与其老板戴夫有染。一日，艾迪接待的一位客人大肆吹嘘新兴的干洗生意，并拉拢艾迪投资，不甘在小镇寂寞一生的艾迪决意入股，并向戴夫发出了匿名威胁信勒索以获得资金。艾迪如愿收到封口费，但事情很快暴露，戴夫找到艾迪泄愤不成反被杀死。戴夫之死导致多丽丝入狱，艾迪反而未受怀疑，于是他超脱于事件之外，每日只靠少女贝蒂（Scarlett Johansson 饰）的琴声打发时光，不久一场车祸让事情急转直下……...
A rookie police officer willingly takes the last shift at a newly decommissioned police station in an attempt to uncover the mysterious connection between her father's death and a vicious cult....
