A moody, atmospheric movie about people trapped by circumstance and their own inability to change. Wide-eyed, streetwise Abby and her hot-tempered lover come, amidst thousands of other croppers from the industrial north, to the fertile landscape of World War I Texas. Once there they are caught up in a diffident, ultimately fatal, triangle with their dying young landowner-boss, whom the boy convinces Abby to marry so that they can have a claim to his fortune. These are the surreal, idyllic, numbered Days of Heaven. A classic, simmering with repressed violence and beautifuly filmed.