匆忙回国的徐敬业得知爷爷乔建军得了晚期肺癌,只有一个月的生命期限了。敬业十分难过,医生告诉他,似乎爷爷还有什么没有完成的心愿,整日盯着一张撕碎后又重新粘贴起来的旧画看……
敬业问爷爷有没有什么未了的心愿。乔建军说自己的确有一个非常想见的人,但这个人也许不想见他。敬业说自己一定找到这个人……
青年宫里,舞蹈老师周忆君正在教学生们跳舞,突然一位不速之客——徐敬业找上门来,说自己是代表病重的爷爷来的。自己的爷爷很想见见忆君的奶奶,忆君怔住……但面对一位病危老人的乞求,忆君不得不答应。
忆君带徐敬业回到家,奶奶周晓惠听说敬业是代表乔建军来的,突然大发脾气,并下了逐客令!老奶奶掉下了伤心的眼泪,在她房间的桌子上,也有一幅发黄的旧画……
深夜,忆君发现奶奶的房间里亮着灯……周奶奶盯着房中的旧画,她的思绪飘回到45年前的那个少女的时代……。大牌影星朱·巴瑞摩尔曾在著名科幻巨片《E.T.外星人》中饰演一位惹人喜爱的小女孩歌蒂,而在《欲海潮》一片中,观众所看到的巴瑞摩尔已不再是一个小女孩了,她已经成长为一名成熟性感的大艳女。 茜维是一个叛逆不平的富家女,在一个偶然的机会遇到了与自己个性迥然不同的艾薇,她热情开放的举止及特有的神秘色彩让茜维为之震撼,因好奇心驱使她一心想与她成为好友,因缘际会下,艾薇住进了茜维家,但从此灾难接踵而至,父亲被艾薇诱惑出轨,母亲离奇堕楼而亡……。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.。