在这部鲁莽时刻剧情/犯罪/黑色电影片中,在发现自己儿子比依·哈珀的情人的尸体之后，露西亚将尸体藏匿起来，并断定是她女儿杀死了这个男人。马汀代表他的伴侣Nagel前来勒索露西亚之际却为之而倾倒。Nagel想要钱，而马汀为保护露西亚却杀死了Nagel，之后他选择自杀来了断与有夫之妇的露西亚的关系。
In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, middle-class housewife Lucia Harper travels to Los Angeles to meet scoundrel, Ted Darby. Her seventeen year-old daughter Beatrice is in love with Ted. He asks for money to leave Bea, but Lucia refuses to give any. Bea does not believe her mother when told and during the night she sneaks out to the boat garage to meet Ted who admits that Lucia told the truth. Bea pushes him and Ted falls to his on an anchor. The next morning, Lucia finds the body and assumes that Bea has killed her lover. She decides to get rid of the corpse and puts it in her boat and dumps it far from home. When the police find Ted, a stranger, Martin Donnelly, visits Lucia to blackmail her on behalf of his partner, Nagel who has several letters Bea had written to Ted. Donnelly wants $5000 for the letters. The desperate Lucia tries to raise the amount. Martin falls in love with Lucia and tries to help her too. The dangerous Nagel wants to receive the ...
