In the name of medical research, a man experiments on animals. His relationship with his wife becomes stressed when she becomes inquisitive about his work.
供职于纽约曼哈顿一家广告代理机构的职业摄影师乔治（Jake Weber 杰克韦伯 饰）每日里过着紧张忙碌的生活，为了缓解工作所带来的巨大压力，他带着妻子金（Patricia Clarkson 饰）和儿子米尔斯（Erik Per Sullivan 饰）驱车前往山中的小屋度假。
不过他们的旅途并不顺利，途中乔治的汽车撞死一只跑到路中央的鹿，并因此和自称猎人的奥提斯（John Speredakos 饰）发生争吵。抵达目的地后，一家人始终为一种莫名的恐惧和压迫感所困扰。继而又从便利店老板口中得知了半人半鹿怪物Wendigo的传说。令他们怎么也想不到的是，这个传说正逐渐变成现实……
One day an ancient one took his grandson out for a walk, when suddenly, out of no where, they came across two wolves in a fight to the death--the battle between the good wolf and the bad wolf. The one that wins is the one that you feed.
River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. ...
