A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The tensions of small town New Zealand and individual conflicts generated by intolerance and fear, unleashes forces of violence and betrayal.

A couple of drifters (Adam Roarke and Lou Diamond Phillips) molest Sharon (Mary Pillot). Franklin (Robert Kuhn) scares them away, but loses his son who is stabbed by one of the drifters. Franklin and Sharon commence a relationship to the chagrin of her husband (Van Brooks). Franklin's old friend August Klein (Ben Johnson) dies. What happens when murder and romance collide?

Two drifters, Lou Diamond Phillips and Adam Roarke who was Lou's acting teacher and mentor, come to town and wreak havoc, killing one man's son and raping the leading lady. The husband of the leading lady unbeknownst to all, saw the whole thing and did nothing. Sharing in a joint tragedy, the rape victim and the man draw close and begin an affair. That leads to some rather bizarre consequences.

The arrival of the first tourists brought unrest among the residents of the small, melancholic Dalmatian town. Some of them were tempted by the possibility of easy earnings, but besides mutual disputes, tourism also brought them encounters with people they were not accustomed to.

1975年，在贝尔法斯特郊外的一个小镇上。一天晚上，天主教女教师库什拉在自家酒吧的吧台后工作，为包括当地驻军在内的形形色色的顾客服务时，她遇到了迈克尔。迈克尔是一位年长的新教徒，已婚，他经常为爱尔兰共和军嫌疑人辩护，并且和一些有教养的放荡不羁的人是朋友，这些人让库什拉既愤怒又好奇。两人生活在不同的世界里，库什拉知道一段感情……

在纳粹追捕和杀害残障人士的过程中，一名肢体残疾的男孩在逃命时做出了一个大胆的决定