MOVIE · 2008

The Burning Plain

CrimeDramaMysteryRomance111 min

After two adulterous lovers are found dead in a burning trailer on a New Mexico plain, the story moves between before and after the fire, and between Mexico and the U.S. border, tracing the hidden links between two families. Charlize Theron is Sylvia, a guarded restaurant manager whose tightly managed life is shaken when a man from Mexico confronts her about the past. In another strand, Kim Basinger’s Gina, a married woman living in an isolated trailer, begins an affair that sends consequences far beyond her own home.