Jude, a college literature professor, falls for one of his students. She is more interested in the empirical experience of a relationship with a man whose life is ruled by the themes of the Russian Lit. he extolls in class. Jude shows an interesting side of the stigmas associated with transgenerational relationships and how to deal with the inevitable pain of a love doomed to failure.

1991年法国杜维尔电影节观众奖 1991年圣丹斯电影节荧幕特别奖 1991年圣保罗国际电影节观众奖 高中辍学生玛利亚告诉家人自己怀孕后，父亲倒毙地上，母亲把她踢出家门，男朋友弃她而去。于是她孤零零一个人无家可归。此时她遇上马修。他是个修理电子器械很有天分的高中毕业生，但他有个原则：质量至上，这使得他每份工作都做不长久。当玛利亚接受了马修的帮助，他们便展开一段令彼此发生转变的关系…… When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.

伦敦-1973年漫长而艰难的冬天。矿工罢工导致整个英国停电，整个国家陷入一片漆黑。 女主Val是个年轻护士，被迫在一家破败的医院做夜班。是夜，瓦尔身处一处空旷破败建筑物，周围笼罩着险恶的黑暗。她发现这些城墙中隐藏着一个致命的秘密和一个可怕的存在。