影片一共有三条故事线:青少年罗伯(Rob)年纪轻轻就身陷毒品,她的女朋友泰丝死于过量吸食海洛因,他的哥哥和其他朋友也整日沉迷于让人昏昏沉沉的鸦片制剂,罗伯开始考虑开始新的生活;少妇盖尔(Gail)总是生活在自己的世界里,她有严重的广场恐惧症,于是整日关在家里,沉溺于浪漫爱情小说中寻找安慰,隔壁房间是她的奶奶,关在房间里对患有幽闭恐惧症的她是一种折磨,但是因为行动不便,她没法出去呼吸新鲜空气;上年纪的格莱威夫妇(Gladwin)对一次出轨事件达成妥协,这次年轻时的出轨事件让他们都付出了爱的代价。这三条线之间在情节上几乎没有任何的交织和重合,但共同的主题和隐喻让它们的并置产生了意义。“真实的生活只不过有点艰难。”这是盖尔在书中看到的句子,她读来鼓励自己。。After an era of 'nudie-cutie' films from 1959 to 1963, sexploitation film-maker Russ Meyer turned to this 'roughie' rape-revenge, rural sex film with the tagline: "Ever wonder why wives WANDER?"| it starred 42C big bosomed voluptuous star Lorna Maitland as an unsatisfied married woman ("too much for one man") who was raped by an escaped convict in the woods after a nude swim in a swamp - and subsequently had her sexuality awakened, although her unfaithfulness led to her murder (a baling hook to the chest)| some states prosecuted the film for obscenity。该片讲述了一位电影制作人发现了一盒录像带,上面描绘了两个学生令人不安的电影项目的故事。。