Wild love and hate plot

Wild Love and Hate is adapted from Thomas Hardy's 1886 ethical novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. In this rare western film, the screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce vividly expresses the theme of retribution, revenge and atonement in Hardy's original works.

1849 The gold rush to the American continent triggered the largest migration wave in history. Nearly half a million people from all over the world flocked to wild California to look for the legendary gold. The story happened twenty years after the Gold Rush, and Daniel Dylan (played by Peter Moran) was the pioneer of immigration that year. He overcame the severe winter there and accumulated inestimable wealth, becoming the real ruler of a local mountain village town called Paradise. In this paradise, Daniel owns everything, including banks, mines, hotels and pubs. He even won the favor of the local brothel owner lucia (Milla Jovovich).

At this time, three strangers came to this town. Daniel Dylan's infinite ambition and greed once made him famous, but now it seems that he is on the verge of abyss. One of these three people, Mr. Dagoli Hirsch (Weiss Bentley), is a surveyor. He is investigating the part of the railway planning in the Central Pacific that passes through this town, and this plan will make this town either prosperous or bleak in the future. The other two ladies are the beautiful young Hope (Sarah Polly) and the terminally ill Elena (nastassja kinski), who holds the secret that can destroy Daniel Dylan. Even in this wild and vast land, a small town that has undergone tremendous changes, people's hearts may undergo greater fission.