一把冷冷的男声带来了故事的开始。青春期对里斯本一家的5个豆蔻女儿们来说，是一道迈不过的槛。首先自杀的是最小的女儿赛西利娅（汉娜霍尔 Hanna R. Hall 饰）。她变得脆弱低落，想结束生命，这一切都没有道得明的原因。父母以为，让她去和男孩交往，会改善情况。然而，赛西利娅还是选择了告别人生。
和男孩交往频繁，性情放纵的，是另一个女儿勒克斯(克尔斯滕·邓斯特 Kirsten Dunst 饰)。勒克斯认识花花公子特里普，被和他发生了关系，却最终被特里普抛弃。里斯本父母害怕再次失去女儿，于是失去了理性。他们把
A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else.
Straight Shooting is landmark in the history of the Western. The first feature directed by Ford, it revived the career of Harry Carey who gives a rough and tumble performance here as a hired gun who turns on his employers to defend an innocent farmer and
