A sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay, a stranger whom she has picked up in the subway and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual. The man, who, at first see...。茱蒂戴维丝初登影坛光芒万丈之作。她饰演一位极具文学天份,并勇于对抗保守环境的女性,山姆尼尔则饰演她温柔的爱人。女主角从小就宣示她成为文学家的野心,在上世纪初女性尚未得到应有社会地位的年代,她的奋斗故事是一页女性主义成长的诗篇。。背景是80年代初,科拉尔金矿故事中的第一章,再现了以主人公为中心,领导的一场反对压迫者的战斗。。