Dir.: John Duigan; Script: Naomi Wallace; Phot.: Elliot Davis; Ed.: Humphrey Dixon; Mus.: Trevor Jones; Cast: Mischa Barton, Sam Rockwell, Kathleen Quinlan, Christopher McDonald, Bruce McGill, Eric Mabius, David Barry Gray, Miles Meehan, Beth Grant, Tom Aldredge, Angie Harmon; Prod.: Duncan Kenworthy, Toledo Pictures, 30 Oval Road, Londres NW1 (Grande-Bretagne), tél.: (171) 485 44 11, fax: (171) 485 44 22; Sales: Carlton Film Distributors, 127-133 Wardour Street, Londres W1V 4AD (Grande-Bretagne), tél.: (171) 437 90 20, fax: (171) 434 36 89 .

Twenty-one-year-old Trent Burns mows lawns in the affluent Louisville (Kentucky) suburb of Camelot Gardens. Each day he faces customers who "forget" how much they owe him, kids who taunt him as if it were their birthright, and a security guard who treats him like trouble. But Trent needs the money, so he grits his teeth and mows. Ten-year-old Devon Stockard is new to Camelot Gardens. Unlike her socially ambitious parents, she has no friends. But she amuses herself with the scary Baba Yaga fairy tales her uncle used to tell her. She likes to be scared. One day when Devon has been sent out to sell cookies for the Young Rangers, she decides instead to follow a dirt road into the woods. She comes upon an isolated trailer in a tangle of gnarled vines. It could almost be Baba Yaga's lair come to life, with just the right tree nearby to hide from the evil witch. But it's actually Trent's home, and he does not want a 10-year-old girl hanging around. It can only lead to trouble. Devon is undeterred by Trent's hostility. He drives a '65 Ford truck like the one her uncle had. Plus, he almost died once and has the scars to prove it. Devon has almost died, too, and her scars are even bigger than Trent's. She works hard to win his friendship and sneaks out to his trailer whenever she can. She savours sharing confidences and Baba Yaga stories with her secret friend, and she is thrilled when she sees him mowing lawns on her street. This alarms her parents...