Mark Rayner

Amid the dust storms and economic depression of Dust Bowl Era Oklahoma, Eugene Evans finds his family farm on the brink of foreclosure. Discovering fugitive bank robber Allison Wells hiding in his small town, he is torn between claiming the bounty on her head and his growing attraction to the seductive criminal.

Der Film erzählt die inspirierende wahre Geschichte der Langstreckenschwimmerin Diana Nyad (Annette Bening), die mit 60 Jahren das scheinbar Unmögliche anstrebte: die 177 Kilometer lange Strecke zwischen Kuba und Florida zu durchschwimmen, und das ohne Haikäfig.