以运动为借口满足自己欲望的已婚妇女

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

本片是斯洛伐克导演卡塔琳娜·格拉玛托娃的长片首作，带有半自传色彩。15岁的少年埃诺和祖母在乌特奇卡的村子里过暑假，他喜欢摩托，无心学业，每天和村子里的男孩们混在一起。埃诺十分崇拜在外工作的母亲，内心希望能和她一起生活，但随着村子里流言四起，埃诺渐渐发现，母亲并不如想象中那样善良，而成长也总是伴随着痛苦和挣扎。

　　故事发生在20世纪的30年代，雷（西恩·潘 Sean Penn 饰）是当时红极一时的爵士乐传奇人物。由于早年生活困顿，成名后雷养成了挥金如土的恶习，压抑许久的他放纵自己迷失在由金钱和美女组成的奢侈世界里。　　一位名叫海蒂（萨曼莎·莫顿 Samantha Morton 饰）的普通洗衣女工深深的爱上了雷，愿意为雷付出一切，而雷亦对单纯的海蒂抱有好感。可是，此时的雷并不想过早的走入安定的家庭生活，更何况，雷可是一位艺术家啊，对于艺术家来说，婚姻难道不正是灵感的坟墓吗？就这样，雷和海蒂渐行渐远。之后，雷娶了性感妖娆的作家布兰奇（乌玛·瑟曼 Uma Thurman 饰），却发现布兰奇是比自己还要放浪形骸的“交际花”。直到此时，雷才想起了海蒂的好，可是雷没有把握，这个单纯可爱的女孩如今还会一如既往的包容他，接纳他吗？