百合是一个十九岁的单亲妈妈,面对记者的摄像机,她丝毫没有半点紧张的神情,从容地回答着提问。几年前,她打工来到深圳皇岗口岸,结识了一名香港货运司机,不久与其同居,待怀孕临产时,那个男人不见了,她最终也没找到他。百合靠做蛋糕的手艺艰难生存,可老板因怕她把孩子生在蛋糕店而辞退了她。孩子出生后,她欠下老乡很多钱,尤为胡金玲最多,不幸的是孩子患有先天性心脏病,手术费需十万元,可根本筹不到这么多钱,她甚至把孩子扔进医院逃跑,把负担扔给社会,伹最终并未得逞。万般无奈的百合想“典当”自己给暴发户,以获取救孩子的钱,还是没有成功。最后,她想到了卖自已的器官。。1991年法国杜维尔电影节观众奖
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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.。讲述了在吸血鬼统治的时代下,一位独立、内向的人类少女从讨厌到爱上一位吸血鬼王子的浪漫爱情故事。。