故事发生在一座南方小镇之中，男孩年轻的女学生玛丽（拉娜·特纳 Lana Turner 饰）的被害震惊了整个小镇，男孩检察官安迪（克劳德·雷恩斯 Claude Rains 饰）接手了此案，并且最终将嫌疑人的目标锁定在了玛丽的男友乔伊、校长巴克斯顿和门卫维恩的身上。安迪一直野心勃勃的想要竞选州长，他将这起案件当做是自己平步青云的垫脚石，然而，这三个嫌疑人，无论最终凶手是哪一个，都不足以令这起案件轰动整个州，于是，安迪决定为案件再找一个嫌疑人，他将目标锁定在了来自北方的青年教师罗伯特（爱德华·诺里斯 Edward Norris 饰）的身上。罗伯特虽然在这座小镇已经生活了许久，但始终觉得自己和这里的环境格格不入，当他盘算着离开这里，返回北方的同时，他并不知道，不幸的阴云早已经笼罩在了他的头顶。
回复 :Broken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them.
回复 :宝钗去看宝玉，宝玉梦见黛玉来看他，晚上送帕给黛玉试探，黛玉在帕上题诗。袭人道王夫人出诉说对宝玉的担忧，王夫人很赞赏，给了她妾的许诺。薛姨妈，宝钗错怪了薛蟠，薛蟠说出宝钗金玉良缘的打算来气宝钗，宝钗委屈。螃蟹宴后，刘姥姥再进贾府，受到贾母款待。贾母带着刘姥姥游大观园，并要求惜春给刘姥姥画大观园图。鸳鸯和凤姐撺掇刘姥姥出丑给贾母作乐，众人其乐融融。一行人来到藕香榭喝酒行令，黛玉无意中失口说出《牡丹亭》中的词句。刘姥姥在藕香榭宴席上暴饮套杯美酒、莫辩茄菜何料，笑得众人前仰后合。妙玉登场，超凡出尘，竟胜宝黛，令宝玉出离神往。刘姥姥吃坏了肚子，醉眠怡红院。当夜，宝钗借黛玉行白天酒令之事，深情劝诫“女子不可看杂书”，黛玉深深感激。贾母为凤姐大办生日，学小家子凑份子，举府眷仆，纷纷迎合，尤氏总理。凤姐实仍暗中操控。小小“份儿钱”，暗藏大家族各路玄机。庆生当日，亦是金钏儿忌日，宝玉却全身缟素，茗烟快马奔至水仙庵，深情泪祭，唯黛玉心知肚明。贾琏与鲍二家的在房内白日偷欢，凤姐闻之撒泼大闹，更加罪于平儿。平儿委屈不尽，以死相向。贾琏恼羞成怒，拔剑威胁。凤姐向贾母求救。宝玉深情无限，抚慰平儿，平儿受宠若惊。在贾母微笑监督之下，贾琏、凤姐、平儿重修旧好。三人回房，惊闻鲍二家的上吊自尽。新年将至，庄头乌进孝来宁府交租，因旱涝之故，上缴的租子银两并未达到贾珍预算。租子的一年不如一年引发贾珍不满。管理家庙的贾芹去贾珍处领年货，反遭贾珍一顿数落。除夕夜，贾母带领众多儿孙去宁国府宗祠祭祖，履行两府每年的传统。元宵晚宴上，黛玉不顾体统，众目睽睽之下让宝玉代其喝酒。因女先儿的一出《凤求凰》，贾母掰谎，批才子佳人。凤姐连说两个“散了”的笑话，预示着盛宴必散的结局。
回复 :New York pretentious Diana Sullivan is writing a series of articles on the theme of "family" for Cosmopolitan magazine. Primarily to keep an eye on her but also because of the personal connection, Diana invites her mid-teen daughter, Grace Sullivan, to accompany her on a trip to research the next in the series, dealing with their own family, most specifically a wing that lives deep in the backwaters of the Louisiana bayou, which has been largely overtaken by oil companies of late. They are most directly connected by brothers: Diana's grandfather Mike, and Joe, the patriarch of the Louisiana wing. Diana and Grace have never met their Louisiana relations, they in turn who do not even know that Diana and Grace exist. As difficult as it becomes, Diana and Grace are able to meet their Louisiana relations, led by Joe's widowed young wife, Ruth Sullivan, who acts as if Joe is still with them, who sees anything related to the city as suspect, and who rules her household with an iron fist to ...
