Tania is an actress, 43. Thore is 15, a misfit in a small village at the northern tip of Germany. At the beginning of winter, Tania escapes from her numb life to the village. They meet. She decides to steal him from his parents. The actress Tania travels from Munich to a village in the north of Germany. The skies are grey, just like the sea and the wintery plains. Her feelings are also covered in a grey veil of mist. Her painful past makes it impossible for this forty-something to feel anything at all. The arrival of the stranger is immediately noticed in the tight-lipped community, but she is hardly welcome. Only the teenager Thore, whose imagination is too much for this no-man’s-land, has contact with her. A fragile band develops between them - attraction, rejection and occasionally sexually charged. Thore reveals a need in Tania, one she didn’t know she had. She decides to ‘steal’ Thore to come to terms with her own loss. Rough is a directing debut filmed with great poise and with a sharp eye for this beautiful yet slightly depressing landscape and the people who inhabit it. The camera first functions as a detached observer, then as an accomplice, always very close to Tania.
贝斯(米歇尔·菲佛 Michelle Pfeiffer 饰)是一名非常成功的摄影师,和丈夫派特(
特里特·威廉斯 Treat Williams 饰)一起抚养着三个可爱的孩子文森特(乔纳森·杰克逊 Jonathan Jackson 饰)、本(瑞恩·莫里曼 Ryan Merriman 饰)以及凯丽(阿丽夏·潘娜维加 Alexa PenaVega 饰)。一天,在一场排队中,最小的本走丢失踪了,尽管贝斯和派特找来了全城最精明强干的警探,都未能觅得本的下落。这巨大的打击让贝斯的家庭濒临了崩溃的边缘。
一晃眼九年过去了,贝斯和派特渐渐走出了过去的阴影,全家人在芝加哥开了一家餐馆。一天,一个名为山姆的男孩敲响了贝斯家的们,请求为他们修剪后院草坪。让贝斯没有想到的是,这个山姆,竟然就是从前失踪的本。