Growing up is tough on Berlin’s Gropiusstadt housing estate. No one can avoid the drugs and the fights. The summer is tedious, money is urgently needed, a theft goes wrong. No frills, just like Felix Lobrecht’s source novel....
路易斯（梅格·瑞恩 Meg Ryan 饰）是一名出色的律师，为了能给刚从芝加哥归来的老公伊恩（蒂莫西·赫顿 Timothy Hutton 饰）一个惊喜，她提前一天回到位于小镇的家里。看着满地的散落的玫瑰花瓣，路易斯欣喜万分，本以为是丈夫给自己的小惊喜，却发现自己成了丈夫和小三（克里斯汀·贝尔 Kristen Bell 饰）私奔的绊脚石。路易斯并没有打算轻易放手，因为她坚信丈夫仍然深爱着自己。在失手将丈夫伊恩打昏之后，路易斯“绑架”了丈夫。路易斯首先稳住找上门来的小三，接着对丈夫展开了“软硬兼施”攻略。然而路易斯企图挽回爱情的种种方法并非奏效，丈夫被捆坐在厕所马桶上始终不为所动，直到一伙入室行窃的罪犯闯入他们的家中……...
Follows the story of Ruth Ellis: her lifestyle as a young nightclub manageress, her violent relationship with the man she then killed in cold blood, her arrest, trial, and subsequent legal battle to get her release before she was hanged....
