Act 1 Bill (Richard Gere) escapes from Chicago to Texas, because he accidentally killed a foreman. He went there with his younger sister Linda (Linda Manz), and his girlfriend Abby (Brook Adams). To get the work of sackers Bill has to lie to foreman about prior experience and in order to avoid suspects Abby and Bill pretend to be a brother and sister. While working on the wheat field in Texas, the owner of this farm started to like Abby, and he asked her to be with him. While time was going Bill founds out that the farmer is very sick and he has only a few months to live. Even though Bill was jealous, this information still forced him to tell Abby to get married with him, so they can get rid of a hard labor on the field. Act 2 After wedding Abby, Linda and Bill are leaving such a beautiful life, without slavering they are enjoying of their life. Playing around, having a good food, what else can be better? But life brings difficult circumstances. Abby cannot understand herself, she does not know who she wants to be with. The time has passed by and the farmer still was healthy, in other words plan of the lovers did not work. During the visit of Italian circus the farmer starts to suspect Bill and Abby, he has started to think that they are lying to him and he thinks that they are lovers. After having a small domestic fight, Abby tells everything to Bill and he decided to live their house with a circus troupe. The whole year Abby was leaving a nice life with her husband, but Bill got back. He realizes that Abby actually fall in love with the farmer and he does not blame her for that, he tells her that he is going to leave them alone. While having the final embrace, the farmer sees the truth, he understand that Abby and Bill are lovers. He wants to attack Bill, but the huge plaque of locust stops him. Everybody started to help with efforts to burn this out, so does Bill. Despite, the farmer attacks him. It did not workout, but the ne