The film tells the story of three people for a year a son (Magimel) diagnosed with cancer, a mother (Deneuve) suffering from helplessness and a doctor (Cécile de France) to do her job One year and four seasons for these three characters to deal with the disease, to tame it, and to understand what it means to die while alive.
茱莉亚(Cathleen Nesbitt 饰)年事已高,家财万贯,可是没有子嗣,也就没有名正言顺的继承者,为此,她找到了女巫师布兰奇(芭芭拉·哈里斯 Barbara Harris 饰)。茱莉亚告诉布兰奇,她的妹妹曾有一个私生子,被她送给别人抚养,如今,她想找到这个可怜的孩子,让他继承家产。
就这样,布兰奇和情人乔治(布鲁斯·邓恩 Bruce Dern 饰)一起展开了调查,得知领养茱莉亚外甥的那个家庭全员葬身于大火之中,而放火的不是别人,正是他们想要找的那个人——爱德华(威廉姆·德瓦内 William Devane 饰)。如今的爱德华改名换姓,成为了一位珠宝商,狡猾的他害怕当年的罪行曝光,于是雇佣了当年帮他脱罪的马罗尼(艾德·劳特 Ed Lauter 饰),让他将布兰奇一行人杀死。
The Deadly Companions is a 1961 Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, and Chill Wills. Based on the novel of the same name by A. S. Fleischman, the film is about an ex-army officer who accidentally kills a woman's son, and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory. The Deadly Companions was Sam Peckinpah's motion picture directorial debut.