Quando jovem, Alan Riply (Joseph Fiennes) vive um caso tórrido com Ella Brice (Gretchen Mol). Mas o marido dela, Mark (Ray Liotta), descobre a traição e manda alguns capangas darem uma lição no rapaz para afastá-lo da mulher. Passados 14 anos, Alan retorna sob nova identidade e propõe negócios com Marc, uma boa desculpa para rever Ella e se vingar.
This film tells the tale of young Wilma's romantic escapades with Christine, a woman from the "outside" world. Surrealistically set in the 1950s, the town of Eden is a place where the air is haunted with silence. Wilma has to choose whether to redeem herself in the eyes of her religiously obsessed brother James, her neurotic chain-smoking Mother, and her opprobrious Father, or escape Eden, a place where one can never feel quite clean enough.
