泰瑞(琼·艾伦 Joan Allen 饰)曾经也有过美满的家庭和幸福的人生,可是,酗酒的恶习让她的脾气愈发暴躁,性格愈加乖僻,最终,忍受妻子多年的丈夫格瑞(Danny Webb 饰)选择了离开。人到中年却遭到了丈夫的抛弃,泰瑞的精神陷入了崩溃之中,无所适从的她只能借助酒精麻痹自己的神经,但这只会让事情变得越来越糟,泰瑞和四个女儿之间的关系也因此跌入了冰点。
一次偶然中,邻居丹尼(凯文·科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰)出现在了泰瑞的生活里,随着时间的推移,两颗寂寞的心靠得越来越近。看到母亲的生活因为爱情的降临而步入了正轨,泰瑞的四个女儿决定帮助泰瑞促成这段感情。
故事发生在二战刚刚结束之际,满目疮痍的大地正在缓慢而又艰难的恢复着生计。约翰(马特·达蒙 Matt Damon 饰)和母亲过着相依为命的生活,然而,战后的日子实在难熬,为了维持生计,母亲不得不卖掉了家中的农场,约翰失去了童年唯一的记忆,陷入了深深的痛苦之中。
长大后,约翰和好友兰塞(亨利·托马斯 Henry Thomas 饰)一起踏上了浪迹天涯的旅途,在途中,他们结识了名为布莱温斯(卢卡斯·布莱克 Lucas Black 饰)的男孩,三人结伴而行,彼此之间结下了深厚的友谊。一行人来到了一座庄园里,在那里,约翰找到了一份牧马的工作,并同庄园主的女儿坠入了爱河。
Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) lives with his grandson in the Australian outback when a massive razorback boar attacks him, destroying his house and killing his grandson. He is accused of murder and his dignity is destroyed.
Two years later, a wildlife reporter, Beth Winters, journeys to the outback to document the hunting of Australian wildlife to be used as animal food, processed in a large factory, but she is attacked by two deranged locals, Benny and Dicko, who leave her to be killed by the beast. Her husband, Carl, goes in search of her, and aids Jake Cullen and his young associate, Sarah Cameron, in hunting for the razorback responsible for her death.
As they search for the creature, Benny and Dicko worry that they may be associated with the murder of Beth Winters, so they attack Cullen and leave him to be killed by the boar. Vowing revenge for his wife and his friend, Carl finds Benny and lowers him into a mineshaft, presumably killing him, and finds Dicko in the factory. Before he can kill him, the razorback surges and mauls Dicko to death before chasing after Carl and Sarah, where they face off inside the processing factory. Carl lures the Boar (having speared it with a pole) into pursuing him down a conveyor belt, at the end of which is a large industrial fan. Not able to stop itself, the boar falls to its demise onto the blade/fins killing it, while Carl rescues Sarah.