A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there. Robert Altman's sadly neglected film that, along with his later "Images", fits into the unconventional psycho-thriller mold. A bizarre story with Sandy Dennis as a spinster who takes in a handsome young man (Michael Burns) who is pretending to be mute. She imprisons the boy and supplies his every need, including a prostitute (Luana Anders), whom she goes out and brings home for Burns' pleasure.
该剧本由André Téchiné和Régis de Martrin-Donos撰写，以即将退休的技术和科学警察的特工Lucie为中心。一对年轻夫妇（一个小女孩的父母）来到他的小区，这让他孤独的日常生活感到不安。当她爱上她的新邻居时，她发现父亲Yann是一名反警察活动家，有着沉重的犯罪记录。Lucie的职业良知与她帮助这个家庭的愿望之间的道德冲突将动摇她的确定性......
During one fatal afternoon in an empty elementary school the two mothers of Armand (6) and Jon (6) get into a desperate fight to be believed when one son is accused of crossing boundaries against the other. All means are used, and soon a blend of madness,
Leila George stars, alongside her mother Greta Scacchi, as a young woman so determined to save her drug-addicted brother that she locks him in a room to get clean.
