一次交通意外, 一个有才华但不得志的漫画家(梁朝伟 饰)遇上刚要出嫁之女鬼(王祖贤 饰),由此引出一段浪漫感人的人鬼隔世情。小女鬼來到阳间,对世事一无所知,幸遇资深女鬼(叶德娴 饰),二人互诉身世,原來叶夫早丧,因偷会嫁前情人,与子同被浸猪笼而死。小女鬼对漫画家情有独钟,暗中相助使他成为当红漫画家。但小女鬼却日渐虛弱。叶终于等到令其子转世机会,不过交换条件是要将小女鬼抓回阴间,因小女鬼实乃血魔之未婚妻子,叶为自己儿子作人,故不惜出卖小女鬼。漫画家决意闯入阴间与血魔决斗……。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.。