一起意外的车祸,一场突如其来的灾难,刑警龙刚心爱的女友丧生于一起车祸,肇事者却是有名的基因专家黄祖明。紧接着新的疫情暴发了,医生们束手无策,黄祖明却不肯出狱解救,非要和妻子炎梅英离婚,这到底是为什么?他在逃避什么?疫情是怎么暴发的?刑警龙刚又将如何面对这个曾经夺去他最爱的女人而即将出狱的基因专家?发病的病人一年前都曾经服用过同一种抗基因的药物,而病情为何却在一年后才暴发?。Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today.
Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau).
Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone.
Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.。