性感的姐姐

珍妮曾被誉为“钢琴天才”，但她因冤案而被判入狱15年。当她遇到有歌唱天赋的叙利亚战争难民奥马尔时，她同意在电视音乐选秀节目中为他弹钢琴伴奏。在她的牢狱生活期间，她的初恋弗莱舍成为了一名流行歌星，并担任了音乐选秀比赛的评委，而珍妮和奥马尔则是其中很有望胜出的选手之一。在狱中度过这些痛苦的岁月后，现在是珍妮做出选择的时刻：是报复，还是幸福和未来？

 故事背景设定在1970年，影片对1922年同名的失传无声电影进行了重新演绎。一个绝望的年轻人与一个精神失常的医生达成了一项黑暗的交易，他将自己的母亲作为实验对象，供这位医生进行其扭曲的实验。

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

　　故事发生在20世纪的30年代，雷（西恩·潘 Sean Penn 饰）是当时红极一时的爵士乐传奇人物。由于早年生活困顿，成名后雷养成了挥金如土的恶习，压抑许久的他放纵自己迷失在由金钱和美女组成的奢侈世界里。　　一位名叫海蒂（萨曼莎·莫顿 Samantha Morton 饰）的普通洗衣女工深深的爱上了雷，愿意为雷付出一切，而雷亦对单纯的海蒂抱有好感。可是，此时的雷并不想过早的走入安定的家庭生活，更何况，雷可是一位艺术家啊，对于艺术家来说，婚姻难道不正是灵感的坟墓吗？就这样，雷和海蒂渐行渐远。之后，雷娶了性感妖娆的作家布兰奇（乌玛·瑟曼 Uma Thurman 饰），却发现布兰奇是比自己还要放浪形骸的“交际花”。直到此时，雷才想起了海蒂的好，可是雷没有把握，这个单纯可爱的女孩如今还会一如既往的包容他，接纳他吗？