At the age of fifty-seven Bad(jeff bridges) continues to live on the roadplayingvintage hits the largest gamblin houses and rooms in third-rate bowling for major public and tender as drunk as him his fleeting fame slips more and more into darkness. At most they can hope these days is to be opening act for a ig concert of his young protege Tommy Sweets who haslearned everything he knows from Bad only Tommy unlike Bad has managed to become rich and famous A bolus leads to another and so on until one night in Santa Fe meets a local journalist Jean Craddock and it melts more than usual Bad does not promise anything to Jean and as a single mother and with many things regrettable it knows it would be a foul if bealive it. however they rain into each other's arms