A troubled method actor gets carried away with his work on a role, playing a butcher.

A father and son run a rickety used car lot in Southern California. The old man and his boy are left overs from a bygone era of Americana.

Kentucky, 1861. Francis and Henry Mellon depend on each other to keep their unkempt estate afloat as winter encroaches. After Francis takes a casual fight too far, Henry ventures off in the night, leaving each of them to struggle through the wartime on their own.