Synopsis

"The story involves two desperate families connected by the marriage of the son of one to the daughter of the other. As the play begins, Beth, brain damaged from a savage beating which Jake has given her, is being tended to by her parents. Jake sends his brother to Montana to see if she is alive or dead, but Beth's father, mistaking him for a poacher, shoots him in the leg and takes him prisoner. Thereafter the tensions and enmities which motivate the two families grow increasingly dangerous and disturbing."