Mary Ellen travels abroad and ends up marrying a Count while she is intoxicated. The Count disappears and with the aid of her father, George, she tracks down his address in the Casbah, only to discover he was an impostor. The real count is Henri, a nondescript man with a shrewd business sense. Mary Ellen pays him to ca…

该片讲述了一个夫妻关系日益冷淡的家庭里发生的故事。出演过众多西班牙经典影片的杰拉丁·卓别林称这是她“读到的最出色的三个剧本之一”，她在片中扮演一名老年痴呆症患者——“我不想她在电影里说一个词，就像她的父亲（查理）一样”，导演阿古斯蒂·维拉表示，“片中的人们相信，他们唯一应该害怕的就是蚊子，他们相信在生活中只要把自己保护…

Of course this movie exagerates that but I think having been born in Mexico City, this movie reflects that very well. Everything happens in one single period of 24 hours. The acting is great and the talking hard to follow in Spanish to everybody but people from Mexico City. I can hardly wait till it comes in DVD. Highl…

剧情梗概：剧情介绍一位昆虫专家，被派往一个种葡萄酿酒但发生虫患的地区，他对当地一位温情少妇和放浪少女产生感情，最后放弃少妇，与放浪少女远走高飞。

在位于郊外的华丽别墅内，人过中年的整形医生罗伯特·雷德加（安东尼奥·班德拉斯 Antonio Banderas 饰）和忠心老仆人玛丽莉娅（Marisa Paredes 饰）居住于此。在过去的十二年里，他先后失去了妻子盖儿和女儿诺玛（Ana Mena 饰），一桩桩人间惨剧彻底颠覆了罗伯特看似完美的生活，同时也将他的事业与研究推向了完全未知的领域。在别墅的某个神秘…