马克斯和里奥跟随母亲露西亚从家乡墨西哥移居到美国她说他们会过上更好的生活她还答应带他们去梦寐以求的迪斯尼乐园现实的情况却是孩子们每天被关在一个破旧狭小的房间里涂鸦等待精疲力尽的妈妈下班归来导演根据自身经历改编描绘了一幅疏离而忧伤的童年画卷以敏感而审慎的态度勾勒出多元化社会及移民问题的痛点
职业摩托赛车手巴德•克雷文森特•加洛 Vincent Gallo 饰独自驾车从新罕布什尔州出发他将要参加五天后在加州举行的比赛孤独的旅程让人心绪万千关于那旧日爱人的回忆慢慢浮现脑中黛西Chloë Sevigny 饰一个让他魂牵梦绕且愁绪满怀的名字这个美丽如同妖精的女孩曾让巴德感受到爱的温暖而如今她身在何方巴德一路前行邂逅了一个又一个充满个性美丽温柔的女孩她们短暂慰籍着他的心灵却最终都被抛在身后无论怎样她们无法取代黛西的地位一如那旧日回忆久久萦绕盘桓…… 本片2003年入选戛纳电影节角逐金棕榈奖却遭到了灾难性的评价
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson#39;s interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey#39;s protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result, all seen and described through the eyes and memory of Grey#39;s young nephew John