这部电影追溯了男高音恩里科·卡鲁索（1873-1921）的一生。他爱他的家乡那不勒斯的穆塞塔，然后是多萝西，一位大都会歌剧院赞助人的女儿。卡鲁索对两个女人的父亲来说都是不可接受的：对一个来说，因为他唱歌；对多萝西来说，因为他是个农民。对纽约的贵族来说，卡鲁索身材矮小，胸膛圆润，声音洪亮，情绪化，没有教养。他们的欣赏来得很慢。影片描述了卡鲁索的感叹：“男人没有声音，声音有男人”：他不能成为他想去的地方，因为他必须在别处唱歌，包括他母亲去世的那天。从头到尾，马里奥兰扎和来自大都会的明星们一起歌唱。

托比是个十二岁小男孩,母亲过世后,与继父切特和小狗拉奇一起生活.姨妈薇拉丽为夺取财产,拼命与切特争夺托比的监护权,拉奇在追逐小偷时死于车祸,装有托比母亲遗嘱的文件箱也被盗走,然而正在托比痛不欲生之时,拉奇又如幽灵般出现了,在幽灵狗拉奇的协助下,托比一面为父亲物色女友,一面开始寻找文件箱的下落……

In 1909, amidst the dying old west, Willie Boy, a long distance Desert Runner by Chemehuevi tradition, falls in love with young native beauty, Carlota. Carlota's father, a Chemehuevi shaman and local tribal leader, refuses to let the young couple be together. In a fatal confrontation, Carlota's father falls dead to an accidental gun shot and the young lovers flee to the sun enslaved Mohave desert. The local sheriff leads a mounted posse armed with fire power and two Native American trackers seeking justice for their murdered tribal leader. Willie Boy and Carlota evade capture outlasting the men and their horses. However, fake news stories meant to sell papers adds to the mounting pressure to capture Willie Boy. In a desert that purifies all, the search for Willie Boy forces everyone to face their own demons in this tragic tale of love, death, and desert heat.