洛奇（保罗·纽曼 Paul Newman 饰）出生在位于纽约的一个非常贫困的家庭之中，他的父亲曾经梦想成为一名拳击手，但可惜窘迫的生活条件让这个梦想最终化为了泡影，于是，这个失落的男人只能整日生活在郁郁寡欢之中，靠着酒精排遣内心的不满。 荷尔蒙爆棚的洛奇整天在大街上打架惹是生非，这让他和父亲之间的关系变得非常的糟糕。某日，洛奇得到了军中长官的赏识，在长官的鼓励之下，他决定去拳坛一试身手，因此...
In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life: he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for...
Robert Tucker, a sorrowful, solitary man, given to bouts of weeping, tries to balance his life caring for his aging mother, his Catholicism, his homosexuality, and his dull job. One night, after his...