When her estranged, drifter husband Matt returns after spending seven years in prison to ask her to let him be a part of her life again, Rachel Kirby's life is thrown into turmoil, which also affects her teenage daughter and mother.

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

骗子来到炎热的西部城镇，他对农民说，如果给他钱，他就能变出雨，在卡里的家里，他用各种各样怪异的声音加上一些无法形容的仪器开始作法，真的开始下雨了——这完全是一种巧合。那户人家的长女爱上了乐观的骗子，骗子开始迎合她并改变她孤寂的生活。两人差别很大的性格特点贯穿了电影的始终。