电影讲述了内尔(玛丽莲·梦露 Marilyn Monroe 饰)的生活,她在埃迪叔叔(小伊莱沙·库克 Elisha Cook Jr. 饰)的帮助下找到了一份在酒店照顾客人孩子的工作。内尔一直渴望有一份工作,因此对埃迪叔叔表达了深深的感激之情。尽管外表温顺、乖巧,内尔的内心却受到珠宝首饰和漂亮衣服的强烈吸引。在照顾小女孩后,内尔被女主人的珠宝和衣物深深吸引。然而,这一幕被和女朋友闹别扭的飞行员杰德(理查德·威德马克 Richard Widmark 饰)误解,他看到内尔在窗户对面翩翩起舞。
随后,杰德发现内尔的精神有问题,埃迪告诉他内尔的过去,她的男朋友曾死于空难,这一打击使她精神错乱。经过三年的医院治疗后,内尔刚刚出院,家人希望通过将她送到纽约来让她融入新的环境。然而,令人遗憾的是,她的病情并没有好转,表现出行为不端和暴力倾向。
“Lobo Feroz is a loose, revitalised adaptation of Big Bad Wolves. There were many changes that we made when you compare it to the original, given that we added new characters, plot strands and locations, and we introduced and fleshed out new themes teetering between dark comedy and police thriller. The film questions one’s principles, human behaviour and how ambiguous it can be,” the director explained to Cineuropa. “I’m very happy to be able to work with a dream Spanish cast, where everyone demonstrates their enormous talent and commitment in every scene and through every single detail.”
The screenplay for the movie – written by Juan Manuel Foode Roma and Eva María Alonso Moreno – follows a police officer on the fringes of the law and a woman seeking revenge. Their paths cross, as they are obsessed with discovering the identity of the murderer behind a string of brutal crimes involving various girls. They are both willing to do whatever it takes to secure a confession, even though they will have to take the law into their own hands in order to do so. At the same time, a model detective will do his utmost to avoid irreparable errors being made and to ensure that this desperate search for the truth does not transform into the fiercest of wolves.