霍华德（瑞安·奥尼尔 Ryan O #039;Neal 饰）是一名音乐学家，他带着自己的未婚妻尤妮丝（玛德莲·卡恩 Madeline Kahn 饰）前往旧金山，霍华德发现了一块火成岩石标本，这个标本

　　A French intellectual who writes about living with an open-mind struggles to live up to his words

A Californian teenager's plan to come out at his Nebraskan family reunion gets derailed when a bloodstain on his young cousin's dress makes him the unwitting suspect of abuse.