The film tells the story of a young man by the name of Pierre Hunter who returns to his hometown after his parents die, only to get in a dangerous situation involving a mysterious woman and a violent criminal.
"The Driftless Area" isn't so much bad as it is trivial and forgettable, but in a day and age of dwindling cinemagoers, and interest in adult storytelling fading from the big screen, its weary insignificance feels all the more criminal.
Glaciers didn't go through this area, so there's no drift (silt, clay, sand, gravel, and boulders). So the area is therefore driftless. That's very interesting. To geologists.
