The film centers on college student Jeffrey Beaumont (MacLachlan), who, returning from a hospital visit to his ill father, discovers a human ear in a field in his hometown of Lumberton.
Radnja filma vrti se oko studenta Jeffreyja Beaumonta (MacLachlan) koji, nakon povratka iz posjete svom bolesnom ocu u bolnici, u polju na cesti nađe odsječeno ljudsko uho.