故事表面上描写了下层贫苦艺人的苦难生活,但用大量暗示性镜头和象征式的人物去表现人性内心的孤独和困境以及对生活顽强的希望。费里尼的妻子玛西娜在片中饰演愚笨的农家女,被母亲卖给跑江湖卖艺的奎恩。奎恩对她十分粗暴,以为她是个白痴,没想到她却渐渐爱上了他。后来两人一起加入马戏团,遇到高空走索艺人贝斯哈特。贝斯哈特对女孩很好,教会她很多事,但奎恩却跟他经常冲突,后来更失手打死了他。女孩十分伤心,奎恩离她而去。数年后,奎恩听到女孩的死讯,才想起她的种种好处,但悔之已晚。。大学辍学后也不工作,每天浑浑噩噩地生活着的山田,偶遇了一个自称野谷的女孩。野谷说自己是个旅人,虽然她的性格奔放有点让山田觉得困惑,但还是让她住进了自己家里。在两人同居的日子里,野谷也不知不觉地住进了山田的心里。@弯弯日语组。Twenty years ago at the infamous Redwood Farm, the owner went mad and killed his family and himself. Shrouded in urban legend ever since, a stranger obsessed with the unsolved Redwood murders convinces a group of bereaved family members to venture into the wilderness in the hope of proving the existence of the notorious burlap bag-masked maniac. Their quest for truth sees a sin...。