阿娜伊丝?宁(Maria de Medeiros玛丽亚?德?梅黛洛 饰),银行家雨果(Richard E. Grant 饰)的妻子,一个外表雍容却沉迷于D. H. 劳伦斯文字的野性女子。在丈夫的介绍下,阿娜伊丝结识了外表颓废粗糙的小说家亨利?米勒(Fred Ward弗雷德?沃德 饰),她迷上了眼前这个睿智的男子,继而又为亨利的妻子琼(Uma Thurman 乌玛?瑟曼 饰)所吸引。
在琼的嘱托下,阿娜伊丝开始照料亨利的生活,为他的小说《北回归线》四处奔走,并由此衍生出一段段狂野激情的欢愉……
本片获1991年奥斯卡最佳剧本提名。
Lost in a personal vacation police Chris Morgan (he gave evidence to the Department of internal investigations about corruption of their fellow was awarded OK. 400 000 dollars!), he met with singer from the bar Keri Truitt, which, as it appears, is implicated in the murder of her own husband a millionaire. Detective action of the film unfolds on the background of relations Chris and his "passed" colleagues at work (They seek by any means to catch Chris in laid trap) and conscientiously punctuated bedding scenes.