In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
一个男子带着两百万美金偷渡到墨西哥小镇阿吉哥,也带着他不为人知的秘密,没想到他却唤醒了这个沉睡的边境小镇,引来一场疯狂的大追杀。