After an era of 'nudie-cutie' films from 1959 to 1963, sexploitation film-maker Russ Meyer turned to this 'roughie' rape-revenge, rural sex film with the tagline: "Ever wonder why wives WANDER?"; it starred 42C big bosomed voluptuous star Lorna Maitland as an unsatisfied married woman ("too much for one man") who was raped by an escaped convict in the woods after a nude swim in a swamp - and subsequently had her sexuality awakened, although her unfaithfulness led to her murder (a baling hook to the chest); some states prosecuted the film for obscenity

Almost everything in Eli's life, a 15 years old boy with an eating disorder, is on the brink of catastrophe. He lives in a seedy neighborhood with his mother and her husband, two ex-junkies obsessed with living a "normative" life. His alcoholic father is an unemployed artist and a street philosopher, an eccentric character in a rough environment. 　　In this impulsive and violent world, nothing stays in its natural dimensions, and Eli's desperate efforts to unite his struggling family spin out of control, when a minor family dispute erupts into a cataclysmic disaster and everyone pays the ultimate price.

Almost everything in Eli's life, a 15 years old boy with an eating disorder, is on the brink of catastrophe. He lives in a seedy neighborhood with his mother and her husband, two ex-junkies obsessed with living a "normative" life. His alcoholic father is an unemployed artist and a street philosopher, an eccentric character in a rough environment. 　　In this impulsive and violent world, nothing stays in its natural dimensions, and Eli's desperate efforts to unite his struggling family spin out of control, when a minor family dispute erupts into a cataclysmic disaster and everyone pays the ultimate price.

影片从一名成功而美丽的广告公司负责人罗娜的神秘死亡调查展开，负责这个案件的警探麦克在调查相关人员时，从专栏作家华度的口中知悉了罗娜过去的很多事情，不知不觉对罗娜家中悬挂的一幅她的肖像产生了很多幻想。没想到罗娜根本没死，在一个夜晚，她突然出现在沙发上熟睡的麦克面前。大家发现的尸体原来另有其人。

为了筹钱救父亲，十八岁的金国秀惜别昔日恋人祝宇中，嫁到城中富商侯志宏家做填房，并许诺其前妻抚养侯云朗。在侯家，国秀虽受丈夫冷遇，婆婆刁难，但坚毅好强的个性支撑她挑起生活的大梁，慢慢赢得了侯家及当地商界的尊重。志宏反袁被捕，国秀挺着肚子去救志宏，却发现丈夫另有外遇含芳，国秀愤然离去，夫妻关系名存实亡，志宏后悔莫及，国秀却在侯母的要求下留在侯家支撑家业。抗战爆发，儿子参军报国，女儿加入共产党，国秀卖掉家产创办慈善机构收养孤儿。解放战争爆发，面临不同的信仰，侯家人走上了不同的政治道路，两个儿子相继在革命中牺牲，志宏被迫亲自杀死自己的爱女侯如玉，几近崩溃，最终宣布带部起义。重庆解放，政府偿还国秀两千两黄金，她婉拒并做出了另一个选择。

为了筹钱救父亲，十八岁的金国秀惜别昔日恋人祝宇中，嫁到城中富商侯志宏家做填房，并许诺其前妻抚养侯云朗。在侯家，国秀虽受丈夫冷遇，婆婆刁难，但坚毅好强的个性支撑她挑起生活的大梁，慢慢赢得了侯家及当地商界的尊重。志宏反袁被捕，国秀挺着肚子去救志宏，却发现丈夫另有外遇含芳，国秀愤然离去，夫妻关系名存实亡，志宏后悔莫及，国秀却在侯母的要求下留在侯家支撑家业。抗战爆发，儿子参军报国，女儿加入共产党，国秀卖掉家产创办慈善机构收养孤儿。解放战争爆发，面临不同的信仰，侯家人走上了不同的政治道路，两个儿子相继在革命中牺牲，志宏被迫亲自杀死自己的爱女侯如玉，几近崩溃，最终宣布带部起义。重庆解放，政府偿还国秀两千两黄金，她婉拒并做出了另一个选择。

Alice（杰西卡·查斯坦饰）和Celine（安妮·海瑟薇饰）过着传统的生活方式，有着成功的丈夫和同龄的儿子。在一次悲惨的事故后，生活的完美和谐突然被打破，内疚、猜疑和偏执加在一起破坏了他们姐妹间的纽带。

琇娥，是本剧的中心，前夫出海打鱼因病暴死海上，被大伯骗嫁给丧妻的屠夫张德堡。张德堡带着两个小孩和一个患有老年痴呆的父亲，以杀猪为生。琇娥带着两…