简介：Natty Gann (played by Meredith Salenger) is a twelve year old Depression era girl whose single-parent father leaves her behind in Chicago while he goes to Washington State to look for work in the timber industry. Natty runs away from the guardian she was left with to follow Dad. She befriends and is befriended by a wolf that has been abused in dog fights, hops a freight train west, and is presumed dead when her wallet is found after the train crashes. Dad gets bitter and endangers himself in his new job. Meanwhile Natty has a series of adventures and mis- adventures in various farmhouses, police stations, hobo camps, reform schools, and boxcars.

简介：Cosmo Vitelli是一个简洁的人，曾在朝鲜战争中担任兽医，他也是一个赌徒。他在加州有家脱衣舞点，叫做Crazy Horse West。　　当我们遇上他的时候，他正在偿还最后一笔赌债。过后不久Vitelli又很快在一个非法的纸牌游戏中损失了$23,000，这次他的债务人不再友好，逼迫他马上偿清债务或是杀死一个唐人经纪以抵债。影片最后，以Cosmo Vitelli一个人站在夜总会门外寂寞的街头，开始用手抚摩因受伤流着血的腹部作为影片的结束。

简介：萧条的城市里，帮派分子随处可见，担任黑手党会计的杰克因为私吞黑手党财产并向警方告密，而遭到黑手党监视，他一家人被困在公寓中随时会遭遇不测。杰克和妻子将小儿子菲尔托付给单身女邻居葛洛莉（吉娜·罗兰兹 Gena Rowlands 饰），然而他们自己却没能躲过黑手党……欲追回钱款的黑手党继续追索菲尔，但此时，身份并不简单的葛洛莉挺身而出，决定保护这个陌生的男孩。二人在黑手党的包围中侥幸逃走，声称厌恶孩子的葛洛莉与英语不甚流利的混血男孩在步步惊心的旅途中营造了互信与默契，但葛洛莉清楚，真正的把菲尔从黑手党手中解救出来需要她做出一个惊险的决定……