He is a French taxi driver in Lisbon carrying the scars of a wife's infidelity that ended in tragedy when he found her with his lover upon returning from the war. She is a French woman in trouble with the law and she has a police inspector on her tail. They fall passionately in love, but because of his past he is not able to trust that she is not using him to escape the police....
在遗世独立、满是热气与尘埃的农场上，一个欲望与情感找不到宣泄出口的女子，将她情感的开口朝向她日夜相处的父亲，而肉体欲望则是在黑人工头身上找到慰藉。在她生存空间唯一出现的两个男人，最后都离她而去，只剩下她与自己的幻想跟对话。 玛格妲是一个坚守贞操的年轻未婚女子，日复一日，她看著父亲、与父亲相处，父亲成了她所认识的唯一异性，禁忌的情感在玛格妲灵魂深处酝酿。就在父亲引诱黑人工头的漂亮老婆后，失去理智的玛格妲愤而弑父，独自埋葬她至爱的父亲。目睹一切经过的黑人工头以此威胁继承农场的她，紧张的主仆对立逼使他失去控制而强暴了玛格妲。最后，黑人工头逃走，独自一人的玛格妲却受困于她对男人萦绕不去的幻想，她只能跟自己交谈……
