汉克（汤米·李·琼斯 Tommy Lee Jones 饰）在军队里负责研究核武器，他一门心思的扑在事业上，自然冷落了妻子卡丽（杰西卡·兰格 Jessica Lange 饰），夫妻两人之间的感情渐渐冷淡下来。

A 12-year-old girl being raised within a matriarchal household is taken through the right of passage of killing a deer for the first time. Expectations dissolve into chaos, and Florence finds herself alone, relying on instinct and training to follow through with her decisions, pull herself together, and face becoming an adult in the North American wilderness.