女子Famke Janssen假装自己台球玩得很差，在双方下赌注后就发挥真正水平，从别人身上捞钱，而平时她是以赌扑克牌为生的。她不想儿子继续和酗酒的前夫和蛮横的婆婆生活，她决定要筹5万美元来夺回儿子，而她唯一的办法是在台球桌上打败高手Duncan。
In the thriller TURN THE RIVER, Famke Janssen (Best Actress- Hamptons Film Festival) stars as Kailey a small town pool hustler in upstate New York. She ekes out a living playing poker, periodically driving into Manhattan to check up on her mentor, Quinn (Rip Torn), who runs Quinn's a hardcore pool hall. Kailey (Janssen) is determined to raise $50,000 to wrest her son Gulley (Jaymie Dornan), who she was forced to give up at birth, from the toxic clutches of her alcoholic ex-husband David (Matt Ross) and his domineering mother (Lois Smith) and move to Canada for a better life. In order to win the money, Kailey must score a match with the best player at Quinns, Duncan (John Juback). With this as her only hope for a future with her son, Kailey starts to play and the stakes have never been higher
