六和塔之战后,乾隆利用红花会剪除异己,并有力地掌握了朝政大权。红花会总舵主陈家洛因思念霍青桐,只身前往维疆,遇上青桐妹香香公主,两人互相爱慕。深爱家洛的青桐只好将爱深藏心底。家洛返京后,清军重兵进疆,木卓伦被杀,青桐失踪,香香公主被俘献给乾隆。乾隆诱骗家洛劝香香公主服从自己,暗地设计将红花会首领一网打尽。香香公主力助家洛反清大业甘作牺牲,发现阴谋后自杀。乾隆设下埋伏使红花会首领全部罹难,仅家洛一人突围。为复仇,他重返维疆。。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.。