The Peacock film's main protagonist is John Skillpa, who lives in the small town of Peacock, Nebraska. After the death of his domineering and cruel mother, he begins to change into her clothes, and wear a wig. The image of women John live much easier, she - sociable and charming, and he - is closed in itself and does not see the meaning of life. So flows the everyday life of, until near his home is no railway accident: in his court enters a train off the rails. People who have run away to see if everything is OK, and finding it in a dress. His old girlfriend, Maggie reads about this case reads in the newspaper and comes to John, asking to help her with money. In the course of the film turns out that Maggie and John met three years ago, thanks to his mother, who saw the Maggie's need of money, and asked her to meet with his son, and paid for it. John finally gets tangled in his own life, and decides to fake his own death…