Adaptación de la novela homónima de Truman Capote. Un honrado granjero de Kansas lleva una vida tranquila con su esposa y sus dos hijos. No puede sospechar ni remotamente que él y su familia van a ser asesinados por dos ex-presidiarios con las facultades mentales perturbadas.

The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers.