When his sister's classmate, Leelaa, comes to spend the summer at his family home, a friendship is forged in few days and when our hero decides to take off on a road trip across the country, Leela is more than ready to join him. But something happens on that road trip. Situations go out of control and our lead pair are thrown into a vortex that they're completely unprepared for and beyond their control.
故事發生在第一次世界大戰時期的愛爾蘭,羅茜(莎拉·米爾斯 Sarah Miles 飾)是一個個性開朗熱情奔放的女孩,她愛上了名為查爾斯(羅伯特·米徹姆 Robert Mitchum 飾)的小學校長,雖然兩人的年輕相差巨大,但羅茜猶如飛蛾撲火一樣的不顧一切,同查爾斯攜手步入了婚禮的殿堂。 然而,新婚當夜,兩人之間就發生了激烈的爭吵。直到此時羅茜才發現,自己和查爾斯在性格上根本就不相配,但是為時已晚。之後,羅茜邂逅了少校蘭德福(克里斯托弗·瓊斯 Christopher Jones 飾),後者向羅茜展開了熱烈的攻勢,羅茜又一次墜入了情網。一連串意外的發生讓羅茜成為了村子裡的眾矢之的,村民們將她囚禁了起來,想要給予她應受的懲罰。