During their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' lives are changed forever when an army vet takes over as coach of their dysfunctional rowing team.

A stockbroker in a small southern town gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders when a host of other people want in on the plot. Sheriff Thurmond Fowler, the by-the-book town sheriff for over four decades, works earnestly to try and unravel the town’s mystery and winds up getting more than he bargained for.

故事讲述作家(鲍德温饰)因车祸失明，终日郁郁寡欢的他在和一个有夫之妇(黛米·摩尔饰)接触后，创作热情被再次点燃。然而这种微妙的关系却被女人的丈夫(麦克德莫特饰)打破。