story occurred in the 1980s , a New York large consortia heir , fell in love with a girl should not love . Soon the girl suddenly disappeared , with the gradual deepening of the investigation , the greater the secret surfaced . In New York in the 1980s , David Marx ( Ryan Gosling played ) is the son of a local real estate giant , and married a beautiful blue-collar students born Carty ( Kirsten Deng Manchester ornaments ) . The two married together to leave the city , came to the village to enjoy a quiet time when they return , Katie returned to school to continue their studies . However, when Kati becomes increasingly independent , David has also become increasingly violent and full of desire to control . Carty 's sudden disappearance , family secrets slowly emerge many years later , when David best friend died , the case of disappearance of this 20 years ago were renewed , and the family 's big secret to opened the ... the film adaptation of the murder of the most notorious unsolved crimes in New York history , played by Ryan Gosling , Robert Durst, Seymour Durst, the son of big Spender , New York , 1973 , he married with civilians girls by Kathleen McCormack, 1982 , McCormack declared missing . December 24, 2000 Durst 's friend , Susan Berman, was found dead at home , Durst, a result of those two cases to be asked but in the end because of lack of evidence and non- prosecution ( two cases has not been broken ) . In 2001 , Durst, the neighbor Morris Black was killed , part of the bodies were found in the southeastern United States port city of Galveston , he found a well-known lawyer to defend an acquittal . 2004 , re - trial, Durst eventually sentenced to five years in prison . The media will be the name of the "millionaire murderer gift Durst, . "All good things " is the story of Durst and McCormack's main line, the script using the newly discovered evidence , court records, of course , speculate in an attempt to restore, rebuild in order to imagine a true story about family, trouble, love and lost .