在美国某个乡村工厂做工的捷克移民塞尔玛(比约克)天性善良,因患有先天性疾病,她的视线正日趋模糊。为了不让遗传了该病的儿子也将宿命继承,塞尔玛每日做工都很辛苦,不知情的好友兼同事林达(凯萨琳•丹妮芙)因心疼而好言相劝时,她总是报一微笑,因为她还有另一个纯粹属于音乐的世界,其间的美好与安静,足以抵挡现实的心酸与艰难。
令她欣慰的是,在眼睛要彻底变瞎之前,基本筹齐了儿子手术所需的费用,然而就在此时,意外发生,她的命运被加速推向复杂悲惨的境地。。Offshore near Caboblanco, Peru, an explorer of sea wrecks is murdered. However, local authorities decide that the official cause of death is "accidental drowning." Among the skeptical is Giff Hoyt, an expatriate American, longtime Caboblanco resident and popular innkeeper. Giff's interest is further piqued when Marie arrives in town. Her passport is confiscated by the corrupt a...。For nearly two decades, John Gianvito has been carving out a unique space in American cinema with passion projects of expansive shape and political ambition, including The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein, a documentary-fiction inquiry into the human toll of the Gulf War, and Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, a becalmed yet radical Howard Zinn–inspired reflection on American ...。