Susanna Musotto

In the 1830's emigrants from Salem, Massachusetts fled their satanic legacy and came to settle in LaSalle County,Illinois. They brought along with them some of their more unpleasant, unsavory past. There were plain wars between settlers and Indians and whites put together a massacre and mass buried them in what became the cemetery. The Moon family were the curators of the plots. Local legend began after such things as farmers being woken up in the middle of the night with loud crashes coming from the cemetery, and then investigating and seeing all the tombstones knocked over. And then there were the murders.

ハリウッドの映画スター、ジョニー・マルコ。ロサンゼルスのホテル“シャトー・マーモント”を住まいに、高級車を乗り回してはパーティーで酒と女に明け暮れ、まさにセレブらしい派手な生活を送っていた。しかし、それはいずれも孤独な彼の空虚感を紛らわすだけに過ぎなかった。ある日、ジョニーは前妻と同居する11歳の娘クレオを夜まで預かり、親子の短いひとときを過ごす。それからほどなくして、自堕落な日常へ戻っていた彼の前に、再びクレオが現われる。前妻が突然家を空けるため、今度はしばらくの間、娘の面倒を見ることに。やがて、授賞式出席のためクレオと一緒にイタリアへと向かうジョニーだったが…。