年轻的窃贼艾奇闯进纽约的一座寓所中行窃,不过他手段实在是不怎么高明,竟然被寓所的主人、一位步履蹒跚的老太太机智地当场捉住。这位名叫安吉拉的老太太在成功地制服了他后,用枪强迫他听自己讲故事,并许诺在讲完后给他金币作为奖励。于是在这座放满了褪色的黑白照片的房间里,安吉拉开始讲自己的故事。 在世纪之初,路克和伊里亚是来自美国西部的一对牛仔兄弟,他们在土耳其当雇佣兵。两人同时爱上了一个妓女莉莉并为此发生了争斗,最终他们反目成仇。伊里亚与莉莉结婚,而路克则远走他方,四处流浪,直至在马其顿加入一伙劫匪中。 路克和伊里亚原本分开的生命小径再次奇妙地交叉到了一起,而莉莉的介入则使他们的矛盾愈发激化,不幸一个接着一个,以至两人要以生死相搏。而此时马其顿这个小小的国家也正遭受着苦难,土耳其企图统治这片土地。 在故事的讲述过程中,90岁高龄的老人与年轻的窃贼之间的友谊也在一点一点地增长。 Dust (Macedonian: Прашина; Prašina; Prashina) is a 2001 British-Macedonian Western drama film starring Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Adrian Lester, Anne Brochet, Vera Farmiga and Rosemary Murphy. It was directed and written by Milcho Manchevski. The music was composed by Kiril Džajkovski. The film opened at the 2001 Venice Film Festival. Plot Shifting periodically between two parallel stories, Dust opens in present-day New York City with a young criminal, Edge (Adrian Lester), being confronted at gunpoint by an ailing old woman, Angela (Rosemary Murphy), whose apartment he is attempting to burglarize. While he awaits an opportunity to escape, she launches into a tale about two outlaw brothers, at the turn of the 20th century, who travel to Ottoman-controlled Macedonia. The two brothers have transient ill will between them, and they become estranged when confronted with a beautiful woman, Lilith (Anne Brochet). In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah (Joseph Fiennes) taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke (David Wenham) joining "the Teacher" (Vlado Jovanovski), a Macedonian rebel.