There's something going on behind the white picket fences of Lumberton, North Carolina. And after stumbling upon a severed human ear in a field, mystery-loving college student Jeffrey Beaumont is determined to find out what.

Teaming up with the daughter of a local police detective, Jeffrey's investigation leads him into a strange world of sensuality and violence, with the intrigue of the missing ear seemingly stemming from the relationship between a troubled nightclub singer and a sociopathic sadomasochist.

David Lynch's masterpiece of a sleepy small-town caught in the grips of the American Nightmare has retained all of its disquieting power. Colliding sensuality and violence, voyeurism and innocence, its dissection of the American psyche remains as potent as ever.

Ter ere van David Lynch vertoont LAB-1 deze film als onderdeel van ons retrospectief “David Lynch Forever” – een ode aan een visionair die het filmmaken voorgoed veranderde.