该片改编自同名畅销小说。讲述了在封闭的村庄备受欺辱的静仁（郑伊书 饰）和新搬到村子里的邻家姐姐惠珍（金惠娜 饰）相遇后展开的最美丽、最强烈的杀戮故事。

知名摄影师木原坂雄大（斋藤工 饰）之前因一起火灾而陷入诉讼。火灾中，他所聘请的盲眼模特不幸身亡，木原坂本人也深受重伤。事后，他因涉嫌诱拐、监禁和谋杀而被起诉，但在律师的帮助下最终逃脱了制裁。此后，自由撰稿人耶云恭介（岩田刚典 饰）找到某周刊编辑主任小林良树（北村一辉 饰）。希望该周刊能够支持他对木原坂黑暗的一面展开调查。在获得周刊的同意后，耶云拜访了木原坂，得以近距离观察这位神秘摄影师的工作状态，了解其内心所想，并走访与他生命中息息相关的人，却没有料到自己正步步走入对方的陷阱……本片根据芥川赏作家中村文则的小说改编。

This is commonly known as Jean Renoir's first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir's creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didn't regard much of the film as his own. (The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel.) Nevertheless, the film has certain beauties and pleasures. Part of it was shot in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living ~Censored~ is often pungent and distinctive.

面对女儿的出生毫无作为的佑，与妻子琴音在生活中产生分歧。在神圣的“生剥鬼”节日当晚，佑以赤裸的醉汉形象出现在全国性的直播电视上。因侮辱了传统而收到排挤的佑，与妻子离婚后独自逃到东京。两年后，他回到家乡，想补偿前妻和他们的小女儿凪，但现实却让他痛不欲生。