一名墨西哥女子嫁给了一名亚利桑那牧工后跟其回到了牧场。她丈夫年迈的父亲也跟他们住在一起，可后者却十分厌恶前者的到来，于是就开始故意各种刁难。后来，一位流浪者来到牧场寻找工作，老人看到了机会…

Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when he was a knight and she was a gypsy headed for burning at the stake. This becomes evident when their unconscious minds travel back from a train wreck in the American plains to Elizabethan England.