这是一部南方黑色惊悚片，故事发生在一个充满暴力动荡不安的密西西比小镇，一个女人和她年幼的女儿卷入了一场威士忌、枪支和复仇交织的混乱中。

The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate, and begins to suspect that his new manager has designs not only on his wife but on his business. Meanwhile, someone from the new manager's past shows up with information that could wreck his plans.

一对夫妇搬到小镇居住，有人擅自闯入他们的家。妻子自此疑神疑鬼，似乎身边所有人都是另有图谋。