《The Homesman》的故事发生在美国拓荒时期,无赖琼斯和一个边境小镇的女人护送三个患有精神疾病的妇女从内布拉斯加州前往爱荷华州,一路上他们将在严酷的自然环境中经历诸多磨难。无赖琼斯的角色应该由汤米·李·琼斯出演,希拉里·斯万克确定饰演那个边境小镇的女人,梅丽尔·斯特里普的角色目前尚未确定,据猜测可能是被护送精神病妇女中的一员。
Charlie plays a woman, jealous over her husband's interest in another woman. She gets in the way of a cameraman, knocks over a director and a policeman, and gets thrown into a crowd of spectators at a military parade. She attacks her husband and his new flame. The husband throws her off the pier into the harbor.
After a night on the town, Charlie comes home to the house where he is staying, drunk and unable to find his key. For the next twenty minutes he staggers into, out of, and through the house in an inebriated confrontation with the house itself.
Karam, who is trying to live a serious life in Mathura and falls in love with Pari but life is hell bent on not taking him seriously. In a turn of events Karam becomes Pooja which creates further chaos in his already chaotic life.
Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.