Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

本片讲述了英国女诗人Stevie Smith和她心爱的姨母共同生活的故事，并通过旁白重构了诗人的一生。两位女演员的表演极为出色，其中Glenda Jackson凭本片荣获蒙特利尔电影节最佳女演员奖，而扮演姨妈的英伦老戏骨Mona Washbourne更夺下波士顿影评人协会、洛杉矶影评人协会、全美国家影评协会、纽约电影评论协会四项最佳女配角。

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.